The examples you gave boil down to 3 narrow use cases:
- The retention project / intellectually stimulating activity of writing your own operating system.
- Licensing.
- Some really specific hardware, where in some sense you're building an operating system in name only. Might as well just call it an application.
I think what OP means by "interesting socially" is that the new Linux isn't going to succeed on any technical or economic merits.
My guess would be the next Linux innovates in some way concerning national or ethnic identity, environmental conscientiousness, or radical politics.
For example, an operating system written in a non-Latin alphabet programming language. Or an operating system that is only delivered for solar-powered hardware. Or whatever is going to be the radical anarchism or communism of the software world (if you think GPL / free software is that, it ain't).
The examples you gave boil down to 3 narrow use cases:
- The retention project / intellectually stimulating activity of writing your own operating system.
- Licensing.
- Some really specific hardware, where in some sense you're building an operating system in name only. Might as well just call it an application.
I think what OP means by "interesting socially" is that the new Linux isn't going to succeed on any technical or economic merits.
My guess would be the next Linux innovates in some way concerning national or ethnic identity, environmental conscientiousness, or radical politics.
For example, an operating system written in a non-Latin alphabet programming language. Or an operating system that is only delivered for solar-powered hardware. Or whatever is going to be the radical anarchism or communism of the software world (if you think GPL / free software is that, it ain't).