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Re:Sortix: small self-hosting OS aiming to be a clean, moder... by chasil on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:39PM (#16503789)
Xv6 is the classic reroll of the UNIX 6th edition sources for the x86 architecture.

What does Sortix offer that is lacking in Xv6?

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/xv6.html

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Re:Sortix: small self-hosting OS aiming to be a clean, moder... by beefhash on Friday March 02, 2018 @03:06PM (#16505202)
Sortix aims to be a "clean and modern POSIX implementation". POSIX mandates, say, ed[1]. Xv6 does not implement ed; it's absolutely spartan.

[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ed...

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Re:Sortix: small self-hosting OS aiming to be a clean, moder... by ronsor on Friday March 02, 2018 @03:40PM (#16505491)
TCP/IP support
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Re:Sortix: small self-hosting OS aiming to be a clean, moder... by sortie on Saturday March 03, 2018 @09:54AM (#16509465)
Author here. Yep, though the network stack hasn't yet been merged to the master branch (but that's next and it'll be in the next stable release).
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Re:Sortix: small self-hosting OS aiming to be a clean, moder... by temprature on Friday March 02, 2018 @03:16PM (#16505290)
For starters, its own libc and a proper filesystem (the author wrote their own ext2 implementation).
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