The Opportunity for Microkernel Operating Systems

GNU Hurd is still moving at a snail's pace.

If only there was a complete POSIX-2008 built on sel4.

yes, or if not the microkernel, then the OS built upon it.


Yeah the cuck licenses are a shitty part of this, but Redox isn't gonna be POSIX-compliant? I was under the impression that they were.


It's supposed to represent AIDS


Yeah that project is basically dead at this point. Kind of a shame because I would have liked to know what it would be like to use if it were more developed, but it doesn't look like that will happen.

If only you knew what Hurd can do. Imagine reading a CD ISO image through the Internet with an FTP connection through a TOR network connection, through one specific network interface in your machine that has three physical network connections. You don't have to pre-download the whole ISO, you can actually read the ISO image through that specific connection. The access speed will be slow in practice but the idea is that such a mechanism is not provided by some special purpose TOR FTP ISO program but it is built by the standard Hurd translator stack. It's fantastic.

wow that actually sounds pretty incredible! Again it's a real shame that HURD is dead. These microkernels and OSes based on them seem really interesting, and I hope they actually go somewhere with this new line of them like the ones mentioned in the OP, or sel4

Anyone else think the idea of microkernels sounds more compliant with the Unix philosophy? The whole "Do one thing, and do it well"?

I mean with a monolithic one, all of the kernel-type stuff is in one big process that does all of it, whereas with a microkernel, it gets split up into separate servers that each handle one type of component.

I'm not the only one who sees this am I?

You are correct that it takes the unix philosophy to it's logical extreme. I just hope it's obvious to you why it never caught on.

performance issues? Is that really a big deal in today's computing environment though? I mean MINIX is able to run inside of every single Intel CPU just fine, and Fuchsia is being targeted at running on everything from embedded shit to phones to laptops to desktops.

Can FUSE accomplish that?

cuck licenses got us Intel ME nigger