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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-12-05 18:22:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-12-05 18:22:15 +0100 |
| commit | 46b77fd2236b97c9d9c7ecd9a86b7d1ee9cd2527 (patch) | |
| tree | fad47439d4897bf76e5903dc4e182bb93bad1f09 /microkernel | |
| parent | 97c59e4e2647caa13e0f010a3b37319551983b7c (diff) | |
microkernel/viengoos: Update status.
Mostly from Neal Walfield's 2010-12-05 email to <l4-hurd@gnu.org>.
Diffstat (limited to 'microkernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | microkernel/viengoos.mdwn | 21 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/microkernel/viengoos.mdwn b/microkernel/viengoos.mdwn index 2b9fee03..66c6ff36 100644 --- a/microkernel/viengoos.mdwn +++ b/microkernel/viengoos.mdwn @@ -1,15 +1,26 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010 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]]."]]"""]] +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] -*viengoos* is a new kernel currently being designed and written by Neal -Walfield. +*Viengoos* is a research kernel, designed and written by Neal Walfield. + +As of late 2009, the project is on hold, due to time constraints. + +Viengoos is not really meant to be a successor to [[Mach]]. It is highly +experimental; some of the techniques it employs, in particular, those related +to [[memory_management]] and [[IPC]], are unproven. These were motivated by +[[shortcomings_in_Mach|hurd/critique]] as well as current operating systems. A +research system is unlikely the best base for a product. A better approach is +to view Viengoos as an experimental platform whose goal is to explore solutions +to some of the [[issues_uncovered_by_the_Hurd|challenges]]. Knowledge gained +can then be integrated into something like [[Mach]]. The source can be downloaded from the *viengoos.git* repository, cf. <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=hurd/viengoos.git>. You can |