# Freewheeling apps

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**Category:** Projects\
**Created:** [25 February 2023 18:16 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/freewheeling-apps/52 "2023-02-25T18:16:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![neauoire](https://forum-cdn.malleable.systems/user_avatar/forum.malleable.systems/neauoire/32/215_2.png) [@neauoire](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/neauoire)\
**Post date:** [5 August 2023 02:57 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/freewheeling-apps/52/41 "2023-08-05T02:57:56Z")

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I feel like adding the bedrock abstract definition from LoperOS, it’s from one of my favourite blog posts:

> A bedrock abstraction level is found in every man-made system. No recoverable failure, no matter how catastrophic, will ever demand intelligent intervention below it. Repair at those depths consists purely of physical replacement. [1] No car crash, however brutal, will ever produce piles of loose protons and neutrons. When a Unix binary crashes, it might leave behind a core dump but never a “logic gate dump” and certainly not a “transistor dump.” Logic gates and transistors lie well below the bedrock abstraction level of any ordinary computer.

From [Loper-OS](http://www.loper-os.org/?p=55#selection-13.0-17.533)

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