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  1. Re:The Sixth BSD? by pope+nihil · · Score: 1 · on Darwin/Mac OS X: The Fifth BSD

    How about xMach?

  2. Re:Microkernels are a stupid idea. by J.+Random+Software · · Score: 1 · on Hurd: H2 CD Images

    Of course. Your microkernel (e.g., Mach) has an interface that's intentionally minimal, too little to run a normal userland. Your collection of servers (e.g., HURD) isn't ready. So you take a monolithic kernel (e.g., BSD), rip out stuff (like the scheduler) your microkernel does support, and run it as a single-server. This is how NeXTStep always worked, and the xMach folks seem to be continuing down this road.

  3. Donate it! by jmallett · · Score: 2 · on Obsolete Hardware Piling Up

    Maybe I'm the only developer who could use more hardware, but 486 and pentium class systems are welcome donations to xMach, and I especially need more systems to test code on, such as my work-in-progress of integrating ipfilter.
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  4. Re:Fantastic by Ivan+the+Terrible · · Score: 1 · on NAI Labs releases LOMAC, a kernel security extension

    I checked out xMach.org and did not find any justification for yet another port of BSD.

    Why xMach? Why splinter? Why not apply all that energy to making an existing Unix better? Is it hubris? self-promotion? ignorance? NIH?

    If I were Microsoft, I would pay people to create yet another port of Unix, and I would sow FUD by saying that version thus-and-so was so lame it couldn't be fixed.

  5. Re:But he doesnt follow his own advice by naasking · · Score: 1 · on Theo de Raadt Responds

    a 'good' microkernel based OS:

    -QNX
    -VSTa
    -xMach
    -Darwin
    -MorphOS
    -L4

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    "People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"

  6. Microkernels by jmallett · · Score: 1 · on Dr. Dobbs' Journal On Hurd

    I've long been a subscriber to DDJ. It's really good to see them covering microkernels. With projects like my own, xMach using a similar basis (Mach4 and a single server) it makes for a good read. And I'd like to say to all the Linux people here who will say how great Linux is and how great monoliths must be - Linus used to praise AST for making Minix a microkernel. He used to say he wished he had made Linux a microkernel. For some reason, when he got famus and had to back Linux 100% of the time, AST was a moron for making Minix a microkernel, and monolithic kernels rocked his nads!!! Linus loves flip flops!
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