While I’d love to eventually develop a whole consumer OS, current development on the OS is currently targeted towards two or three kinds of users:
Institutional HPC
I grew up tinkering with a lot of software developed at American universities but universities in Australia outside of a couple of cities obviously lacked any training in advanced subjects like OS kernels.
So the main objective of developing this OS besides as a demo or compiler test is to provide a more independent entryway to that (mostly American) ecosystem or one day perhaps a complete alternative.
For this reason, more effort has been put into cleanly implementing core components than has been put into consumer demos or other things. However as the core components work reasonably well, with a little work on things like networking the platform could also be useful for general purpose HPC (supercomputing) & cloud backends.
Robotics Shops & CPU Vendors
While many embedded developers prefer to use their own stacks and some domains require more specialised microkernel type systems, this system is a traditional OS that is mostly complete & usable aside from currently missing all advanced types of drivers like common networking & graphics technologies.
So it can easily be extended by other expert tech vendors to promote their own hardware or other things, but isn’t yet a shrink-wrapped solution for learners & enthusiasts at this point.
Politically-Sensitive Use Cases
I’m very aware of the struggles many people in the world have trying to fit into an industry dominated by West vs East politics and arms races.
While my current codebase still leans heavily on (especially) Western academic code+training and (especially) Chinese hardware vendors I’m also continuing development in the hope of proposing a viable plan to develop operating systems and other infrastructure for African governments and (other) Black Nationalist projects.
Such a plan (or plans) could have numerous cultural and cybersecurity benefits for many people and would probably involve adapting my ad-hoc audit process and providing expert training to support transitions to fully in-community codebases.
While my main passion for cybersecurity comes from African and Australian difficulties trying to innovate amidst the perpetual East/West security crisis, this could also be an interesting platform for people even from the imperial core who may want some additional independence:
- Publishing houses
- Alternative religious institutions
- Alternative tech enthusiasts
- Preppers & off-grid specialists
- Irish or other governments
The main challenge of providing an independent solution of course is that civil industries are still subject to a lot of government interference or restrictions, so my ability to support such use cases may be limited by some practical concerns.