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diff --git a/challenges.mdwn b/challenges.mdwn index 5368ae4e..a3a8a7e6 100644 --- a/challenges.mdwn +++ b/challenges.mdwn @@ -10,12 +10,15 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] The GNU Hurd has a lot of [[advantages]], but there are challenges, too. +Some of these are explained in the [[hurd/critique]]. + Even though they're quite popular in the simpler embedded space, there is no successful true multi-server [[microkernel]] system for general-purpose desktop use yet. This is still an ongoing research effort. (TODO: add references.) Likewise, resource scheduling in distributed operating system kernels is a research topic. For example, read more about it on the relevant [[Open Issues -page|open_issues/multiprocessing]]. +page|open_issues/multiprocessing]]. Also, the [[microkernel/Viengoos]] +research kernel project strives to explore these. TODO: more to come. [[!tag open_issue_documentation]] 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 |