Hi, guys,

so I'm new to your community and philosophy of KaOS and I wan't to ask (after googling and remembering solaris things) you why are you, as stated in About page (though the Illumos kernel is under constant evaluation, and a future switch is a wish), evaluating/planning Illumos kernel what benefits do you see or what advantages compared to linux kernel or what can illumos offer, that linux can't?

Quite a few differences in technologies used, best to give some links:

Those technologies (including no need for seperate 64 or 32 bit packaging), would make it quite interesting to create a one and only KDE distribution on it. But there are still way too many obstacles to even try.

10 days later

And what speaks against a BSD as basement, please ? ;)

4 months later

And what speaks against a BSD as basement, please ? ;)

I would love to see this project adopt one or more BSD kernels, but unless all the releases are very different, we'll need to move off of systemd for that. KDE may seen need local revisions if they tie in to it as Gnome has as well. What BSD kernel were you hoping for? I'd like DragonFlyBSD, but then also the question of userland comes up, would you use BSD or GNU? One nice thing we'd gain from BSD is the firewall. I've used Linux for over 10 years, and I'm sorry, but netfilter is terrible. I've used it through the ipchains and iptables releases and it's still built like some sort of awful hack and the configuration is equally hideous, especially when juxtaposed with pf. Support for pf would be amazing, in my opinion.

7 months later

Honestly, if the technical challenges can be overcome (and I'm not a software developer so I really have no idea how difficult it would be), I can see some massive advantages... mostly it would be a real step towards solving the lack of stable APIs/ABIs which in my opinion is one of the two biggest Achilles heels of the Linux ecosystem. In my opinion no open source operating system will ever see widespread desktop usage until this problem is solved.