[TUHS] Is there a good, even definitive, list of reimplementations of the Unix kernel? What would good cut-off criteria be?
John Levine via TUHS
tuhs at tuhs.org
Sun Apr 19 11:16:57 AEST 2026
According to steve jenkin via TUHS <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au>:
>Was “Wind River” and its VxWorks “Unix-like” or something else?
Something else, I think. They bought BSDI to get a Unix system.
>Does GNU count, as their HURD kernel has never attained the attributes necessary for wide use?
HURD lost its reason for existing once linux worked since it's also GPL. I see people poking
at HURD, but nothing serious. Microkernels are an idea that looks appealing but has never really
worked because they're slow due to all the process switching.
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