Operating systems Decisions

Question

If you had a chance to make your own OS what would you call it and how light would it be on GB/mb's scale. would love to know your answers

Answer 1

I would make a fully open source, easily auditable OS geared towards privacy. Perhaps it would be based on some well developed kernel (like Linux, GNU/Hurd (if it gets well developed in the future), FreeBSD or OpenBSD) to cut the development costs down. It probably wouldn't support applications created for other OSs (even those using the same kernel) because I believe contemporary OSs are very flawed privacy wise and supporting their APIs natively would be a serious privacy threat. Of course, one could always use emulators to run programs built for other OSs.

It's main feature would be that it could run on my "open source" hardware. It means that companies manufacturing such hardware would use practices which would allow easy auditing of these products. Perhaps the CPUs would be based on x86-64 architecture (again, to cut the costs down).
The hardware requirements of such OS would highly depend on various factors which I didn't take into account yet. However, privacy orientated OSs tend to have increased hardware requirements (for example, Qubes + Whonix recomended RAM size is at least 8GB). However, I think we are quickly moving into future where hardware speed won't have any significant effects for "simple" tasks: file exchange, internet browsing, messaging, etc. I think in 10 years even very slow and cheap hardware will do those things in a blink of an eye.

Answer 2

@Charan
How about emulators? Also, Qubes OS runs an emulator for each window and those windows can interact with each other (for example, share clipboard). It supports Linux and Windows 10, but not OSx if I'm not mistaking.