[[!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]]."]]"""]] *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. . You can check it out using, for example: git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/hurd/viengoos.git Then update to viengoos-on-bare-metal cd viengoos git checkout -b viengoos-on-bare-metal origin/viengoos-on-bare-metal viengoos-on-bare-metal is the current development focus. Discussion should be held on the [[mailing lists/l4-hurd]] mailing list. * [[Building]] * Running * [[QEMU]] * [[Hardware]] * [[Documentation]] * [[Projects]]