unikernels were hard. key word: were.
Justin Cormack, who worked on MirageOS back in the day, called me at the pub to talk about why unikernels are coming back. The friction that made them hard is gone, the operating system is design debt, and if you care about security you should seriously consider them.

The Lightbulb Computer — Reimagining Spatial & Ambient Computing with Projectors
A new direction for computing: projecting information into the real world to augment it, with a device that combines a projector and computer vision in the shape of a large lightbulb.

What Even Is An OS Now?
Computers now work the way I thought they did when I was 8. What does computing look like when most applications have an audience of 1-2 people? I'm leaving Fly.io to build a phone for that world.

MercuryOS
Mercury is a reimaging of the operating system as a fluid modeless experience drive by human intent.

Television
Television is a visual interface for personal agents, a space for creating, arranging, and reusing artifacts.

Flipper One — we need your help
With Flipper One, we're reimagining what a Linux cyberdeck can be — it's a huge project. We're opening up the development process and asking the community for help.

A Linux Distribution for RISC-V | openRuyi
openRuyi is a Linux distribution built for RISC-V.

Genode - Genode Operating System Framework
We understand the complexity of code and policy as the most fundamental security problem shared by modern general-purpose operating systems. Because of high functional demands and dynamic workloads, however, this complexity cannot be avoided. But it can be organized. Genode is a novel OS architecture that is able to master complexity by applying a strict organizational structure to all software components including device drivers, system services, and applications. The Genode OS framework is an open-source tool kit for building highly secure component-based operating systems. It scales from embedded devices to dynamic general-purpose computing.


Introducing the all new Mecha Comet, live on Kickstarter
letoram/arcan
Arcan - [Display Server, Multimedia Framework, Game Engine] -> "Desktop Engine"
Xous: A Pure-Rust Rethink of the Embedded Operating System
Xous is a message-passing microkernel implemented in pure Rust, targeting secure embedded applications. This talk covers three novel aspe...

The world is not a desktop | Interactions
Welcome to the preview of the new ACM Digital Library. ACM will formally transition to Open Access on January 1, 2026.

Telepath
Telepath is reimagining the personal computing experience from first principles for the AI era.

Telepath: building a new kind of computer
So, we made a thing: Let’s back up: for as long as I can remember, I’ve been obsessed with computers, fascinated not just by what they can do but what they could become. Like many, I took my early inspiration from science fiction. I dreamed of someday having something like the Enterprise’s computer. And why not? Science fiction has always driven scientists, engineers, and inventors to create real things that change the world.

Caligra is a new computer company.
The Linux®-powered computer designed to accelerate your work.

so that new Mac Studio and M5 Ultra have me thinking about 2030 now the wildcard on the $1200ish 2030 Mac Mini is RAM. who knows what the future holds for RAM but the trajectory is clear: a reasonably priced home computer is going to have absolutely sicko inference power within a few years now…