Re:Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released
by throwaway7645 on Sunday June 18, 2017 @08:42AM
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Does anyone know if Hurd will ever be production worthy? Impressive progress nonetheless from what I understand. I know it must be difficult to get developers as there are so many people using Linux & BSD. Fuchsia is supposed to be a micro-kernel too right? I wonder if there could be a libre fork of that.
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Speaking of microkernels, MINIX 3 is open source, unlike the version of MINIX that inspired Linus to write Linux.
MINIX 3, unlike earlier versions, aims to be used in production rather than being purely a research OS.
MINIX 3 has incorporated code from NetBSD making it possible to run a lot of software on MINIX 3 from the NetBSD ports collection.
I have not used MINIX but I remain interested in it and think it deserves a mention.
Re:Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released
by throwaway7645 on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @11:05PM
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Thanks for the reply! I have one of Tanenbaum's old books. Perhaps time to read it.
Google Fuchsia is based on Google Magenta micromernel. But they are slightly different story. Google is trying to make a whole new OS for embedded system. I mean it is not aiming POSIX-compability.