> It's interesting that no one blinks twice at the thought of using a decades-old operating system - it's "mature", "battle tested", "proven over time" or some other phrase.
We use maintained operating systems that started decades ago - there are basically no good maintained options outside of Unix and Windows these days.
You need a seriously extreme number of testers to have a relatively bug-free operating system. We run proprietary RTOSes for some stuff at work and the number of weird bugs are crazy. We have to reboot every 280-some days because otherwise the machine will crash, IGMPv2 randomly stops working after a couple months - there's no v3 implementation at all, weird hacks just to make the thing boot, etc. And that's on top of the fact that their semi-official ports of modern open source tools don't work half the time and haven't been updated in years.
You really don't want to mess around with esoteric operating systems if you want any chance of having a stable useful application. OSes just do too much.
We use maintained operating systems that started decades ago - there are basically no good maintained options outside of Unix and Windows these days.
You need a seriously extreme number of testers to have a relatively bug-free operating system. We run proprietary RTOSes for some stuff at work and the number of weird bugs are crazy. We have to reboot every 280-some days because otherwise the machine will crash, IGMPv2 randomly stops working after a couple months - there's no v3 implementation at all, weird hacks just to make the thing boot, etc. And that's on top of the fact that their semi-official ports of modern open source tools don't work half the time and haven't been updated in years.
You really don't want to mess around with esoteric operating systems if you want any chance of having a stable useful application. OSes just do too much.