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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-12-13 17:11:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-12-13 17:11:51 +0100 |
| commit | 2d75167da62e3486836e5f1773e5f1ab06e43fe8 (patch) | |
| tree | e44fc83e0b1419836d1b21652ad1d38b8d0af2c4 /hurd/faq/which_microkernel.mdwn | |
| parent | 217998d56f5b6424a685f8c87f2c0e924d1c89da (diff) | |
| parent | 5c5c16e265d8ef56b71f319885f32bf144bdea23 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into external_pager_mechanism
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microkernel/mach/external_pager_mechanism.mdwn
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diff --git a/hurd/faq/which_microkernel.mdwn b/hurd/faq/which_microkernel.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6180dbbb --- /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 of it. See [[history/port_to_l4]]. + +Coyotos is abandoned upstream + +Neal Walfield started working on a newly designed kernel called [[viengoos|microkernel/viengoos]]. Unfortunately, he currently lacks time and the projects it paused. + +In the meanwhile, people are thus continuing with [[microkernel/mach]]. |