Wouldn't it be nice if a home PC was as reliable as a vms system? A gui makes a system more crash prone, but in the case of vms, a gui crash would not bring down the system.<p>I have only seen BeOS crash rarely. Any futuristic system needs to be responsive to the user and a great system to program for, which is why Haiku is so exciting.<p>For a good overview of modern OS research, TUNES' wiki has a good page on this:<p>http://tunes.org/wiki/index.html<p>I've been following the CapROS project for a few years too. It followed up on EROS, the Extremely Reliable Operating System
$ uptime
14:03:37 up 190 days, 5:05, 3 users, load average: 1.46, 1.80, 1.99<p><i>shrug</i><p>Edit: This isn't from some embedded thingy, just a rather obsolete subnotebook in a dockingstation running 24/7, connected to some external HDDs, and an also rather obsolete 24" display with only 1920x1200 pixels in addition to the internal 12" 1280x800. It doesn't hibernate, or suspend, just clocking down.<p>Daily driver, desktop, XFCE, MX-Linux, running from RAM.<p>Mostly silent.