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Re: Viengoos still active?
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Oz |
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Re: Viengoos still active? |
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Sun, 5 Dec 2010 19:19:04 -0600 |
yea sorry i don't know much but from the info i got on the mailing
lists, i believe viengoos and the entire gnu/hurd is in a corpse
status and i think work on linux libre has become the gnu kernel
please correct me if i am wrong. i think thats what they use in
gnewsense and its the fsf officially supported distro.
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Neal H. Walfield <address@hidden> wrote:
> At Fri, 3 Dec 2010 19:54:19 -0800 (PST),
> Dok Sander wrote:
>> I'd like to know the status of the Viengoos project. Is it still active?
>> Looking at git:
>>
>> last change Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:34:13 +0000
>
> The right branch to look at is viengoos-on-bare-metal, not master.
>
>> The question is: Is there still a project for a new GNU microkernel
>> aside GNU Mach? Is Viengoos it or are there new projects blooming?
>
> I have not been actively working on Viengoos for over a year. This is
> unlikely to change in the near future.
>
> You should not think of Viengoos as the successor to Mach. Viengoos
> 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 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. Knowledge gained can then be integrate into
> something like Mach.
>
> Neal
>
>
- Viengoos still active?, Dok Sander, 2010/12/05
- Re: Viengoos still active?, Neal H. Walfield, 2010/12/05
- Re: Viengoos still active?,
Oz <=
- Hurd status (was: Viengoos still active?), olafBuddenhagen, 2010/12/26
- Re: Hurd status (was: Viengoos still active?), Oz, 2010/12/26
- Re: Hurd status (was: Viengoos still active?), Bjartur Thorlacius, 2010/12/26
- Re: Hurd status (was: Viengoos still active?), William ML Leslie, 2010/12/26
- Re: Hurd status, olafBuddenhagen, 2010/12/28
- Re: Hurd status, Oz, 2010/12/29
- Re: Hurd status, Parantapa Bhattacharya, 2010/12/30
- Re: Hurd status, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2010/12/30
- Re: Hurd status, Oz, 2010/12/31