Moxnox 1.0: NT-Like, POSIX-Compatible OS Running Atop Btrfs

SockThief 47 points 8 comments October 27, 2026
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EvanAnderson

> Also, the NT kernel is criminally underrated, and pretty much unknown to hobbyists. It had features that Linux took years and years to come up with its own design for... A person after my own heart. NT was actually designed, versus being a reimplementation of an existing thing.

phendrenad2

> None of the substantive code was written by AI. That is impressive

userbinator

IMHO this is one of the OSes with the weirdest decisions I've seen on here. I do agree with using PE instead of ELF, as the dynamic linking situation of the latter (and Unix-likes in general) is, to put it bluntly, a horrid mess. The POSIX functions are split over ucrtbase, iphlpapi, and ws2_32, as on Windows, with anything that Windows doesn't implement put in mnposix. LOL. POSIX in ucrtbase! Those are words that I never expected to see together. I used AI to help with the mechanical parts of porting I feel like it won't be long before someone comes up with a crazy chimera of an OS that can run DOS, Windows, Linux, BSD, and macOS binaries. It doesn't look like AI is replacing software developers, but rather boosting them quite significantly; there seems to be a lot of activity and new projects I've seen recently from many who aren't even using AI themselves, but must be somehow being inspired by others to do more.

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