Comment by phendrenad2
3 years ago
One way to achieve similar results on Linux might be for the Linux kernel team to start taking control of core libraries like x11 and wayland, and to extend the same "don't break userspace" philosophy to them also. That isn't going to happen, but I can dream!
There was a period where a Linux libc was maintained, but it was long-ago deprecated in favour of glibc. Perhaps that was a mistake.
My understanding is that the Linux devs like only having "Linux" only be the kernel; if they wanted to run things BSD-style (whole base system developed as a single unit) I assume they would have done that by now (it's been almost 30 years).
I'm not sure about taking over the entire GUI ecosystem but I certainly do want more functionality in the kernel instead of user space precisely because of how stable and universal the kernel is. I want system calls, not C libraries.