Interesting and ambitious. I don't mean to sound like a skeptic, but this appears to be a multiyear project at minimum.
Even if the OS was ready and framebuffer access were functional, you'd still have to port the kind of software that people would be interested in running, like Firefox, which by itself is a huge pain in the ass. Large frameworks like Qt are going to require tons of work.
Personally, as I start to move away from modern OS X (I gave them a chance, and 10.11 just didn't cut it), I'll move to more minimalistic software, like Midori instead of Firefox. Do you think there will be much interest in a more minimalistic system as opposed to yet-another-GUI-running-Firefox? Because even if this new OS were up and running right now, it wouldn't be able to make up for the shortcomings of bloated "modern" software like Firefox.
Even if the OS was ready and framebuffer access were functional, you'd still have to port the kind of software that people would be interested in running, like Firefox, which by itself is a huge pain in the ass. Large frameworks like Qt are going to require tons of work.
Personally, as I start to move away from modern OS X (I gave them a chance, and 10.11 just didn't cut it), I'll move to more minimalistic software, like Midori instead of Firefox. Do you think there will be much interest in a more minimalistic system as opposed to yet-another-GUI-running-Firefox? Because even if this new OS were up and running right now, it wouldn't be able to make up for the shortcomings of bloated "modern" software like Firefox.