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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2010-08-31 23:55:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2010-08-31 23:55:17 +0200 |
| commit | e229be53c9f4970723c01a60bf1095917af8974f (patch) | |
| tree | 066a0c5234ae521b29c1c58e935f0b79ac858eb2 /hurd/faq/which_microkernel.mdwn | |
| parent | 7d715cca751c15df77790957afc73fc191a4acad (diff) | |
Briefly mention what happened to microkernel ports
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diff --git a/hurd/faq/which_microkernel.mdwn b/hurd/faq/which_microkernel.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bcbc3b55 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/faq/which_microkernel.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="What happened to the L4/Coyotos/viengoos micro-kernels?"]] + +L4 was promising but happened to not be suitable for implementing a general-purpose operating system on top if it. See [[history/port_to_l4]]. + +Coyotos is abandoned upstream + +Neal Walfield started working on a newly designed kernel called [[microkernel/viengoos|viengoos]]. Unfortunately, he currently lacks time and the projects it paused. + +In the meanwhile, people are thus continuing with [[microkernel/mach]]. |