Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 16th Aug 2007 17:51 UTC, submitted by jeanmarc
"The HelenOS project is an effort to develop a complete and usable modern operating system, yet offering room for experimenting and research. HelenOS uses its own microkernel written from scratch and supports SMP, multitasking and multithreading on both 32-bit and 64-bit, little-endian and big-endian processor architectures, among wich are AMD64/EM64T (x86-64), ARM, IA-32, IA-64 (Itanium), 32-bit MIPS, 32-bit PowerPC, SPARC V9 and Xen 3.0. Thanks to the relatively high number of supported architectures and suitable design, HelenOS is extremely-well portable."
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True, but there needs to be a momentum started - but quite honestly I don't think computers in the traditional sense are all that exciting; the future is mobility, that is where the focus should be; we will still need operating systems like Solaris/Linux but the big money and focus will be on multifunctional devices like smart mobile phones etc.