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+[[!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.
+<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=hurd/viengoos.git>.  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]]