Re: L4::BSD, Subclass your OS
Gernot Heiser <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.micro-kernel.l4.l4ka.general |
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| Organization | National ICT Australia |
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>>>>> On Thu, 11 May 2006 06:13:10 -0500, "R. Tyler Ballance" <[email protected]> said: RTB> Well, let me first introduce myself. I'm R. Tyler Ballance, I'm a RTB> Computer Engineering student at Texas A&M University. I've been using RTB> BSD (Free/Net/Open/Mir/ekko) since I bought a G3 iBook 4 or 5 years RTB> ago, and was introduced to open source. I participated in the Google RTB> Summer of Code last year, and started work on porting Apple's launchd RTB> utility to FreeBSD, according to Google, I succeeded in my project, RTB> but it's terribly unfinished, and it's nothing i'm proud of. I now RTB> run my own software and consulting company to pay the bills, but my RTB> interest in getting a very Darwin-esque operating system running on RTB> top of the L4 microkernel is still quite strong. If you're interested in Darwin on L4, you should have a look at http://ertos.nicta.com.au/software/darbat/ RTB> [...] RTB> Presumably we'd use L4::Pistachio, which I believe is a wonderful RTB> microkernel to start with. Since L4 is largely an academic RTB> microkernel It's a bit more than just academic, see http://ertos.nicta.com.au/news/home.pml#qualcomm-announce Gernot