KnowOS (Was: What would a modern LispOS look like?)

I think a lisp OS could actually be really fun for people who like
hacking on operating systems. After all, if the entire operating system
is running in a lisp image then shouldn't you be able to let root access
modify the image during runtime? You can do this in general with lisp
programs so I can't see why an operating system should be different.
Now do you really *want* to be able to hack on the operating system and
change it on the fly? I'm not sure, but with some safeguards built in I
think it could be a fun experiment.

Well, first off, as usual, let me say that: (a) you can do this just as
you describe it in the KnowOS, but (b) please don't! [At least not on
our public servers.] That said, (c) you can probably do this in Linux
as well if you know what you're doing. (If there's some memory state
that needs to be rebuilt, then you might have to reboot, but the same
is true for any program, incl. an OS which, afterall, is just a hairy
program!)

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