Since 80's, operating systems are a commodity and in the commodities market any elegant or premium product will end in the marginal.
People want their operating systems to manage disks, processes, cpus, network, and peripheral hardware: unless the operating system totally fails at these basic tasks, nobody will pay any attention to how the kernel was implemented. There are some folks who are interested in performance, and there are some folks who are interested in stability, but there are virtuall nobody who is, as a user, interested in elegance.
If you just buy a car to get from point A to point B, do you care if the engine has a carburetor and a purely mechanical fuel ignition system or if it comes with an engine control unit computer that electronically controls that its high-pressure fuel injection system and its computer-controlled ignition system are in sync, keeping the engine at its optimal parameters at all time and avoiding ignition knocks?
Given the nature of operating systems as for the markets in general, it's really great that people like Linus Torvalds and his fellow gurus keep making their kernel better and better. For most people, it sounds like really gritty, mundane work to do.
People want their operating systems to manage disks, processes, cpus, network, and peripheral hardware: unless the operating system totally fails at these basic tasks, nobody will pay any attention to how the kernel was implemented. There are some folks who are interested in performance, and there are some folks who are interested in stability, but there are virtuall nobody who is, as a user, interested in elegance.
If you just buy a car to get from point A to point B, do you care if the engine has a carburetor and a purely mechanical fuel ignition system or if it comes with an engine control unit computer that electronically controls that its high-pressure fuel injection system and its computer-controlled ignition system are in sync, keeping the engine at its optimal parameters at all time and avoiding ignition knocks?
Given the nature of operating systems as for the markets in general, it's really great that people like Linus Torvalds and his fellow gurus keep making their kernel better and better. For most people, it sounds like really gritty, mundane work to do.