Amoeba is Now Free

Andrew writes "Amoeba is an operating system designed by Andrew Tanenbaum (author of "Modern Operating Systems", among others) to treat a network of machines as one giant server. It is now free (open-source). Interesting idea; the OS has some limitations. It would be interesting to hack around on the source. The Hurd developers want Hurd systems to be able to do this. " I actually own Modern Operating Systems. Big heavy book. Lot's of good stuff. I'm kinda tempated to snag the code and take a gander. Probably have more pressing issues this weekend though.