Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 15th May 2006 10:15 UTC, submitted by Andy Tanenbaum
And no, the microkernel debate is not over yet. In a reply to various comments made over the past few weeks, Andy Tanenbaum has written an article to address these. He first clearly states he respects and likes Torvalds, and that "we may disagree on some technical issues, but that doesn't make us enemies. Please don't confuse disagreements about ideas with personal feuds." The article states: "Over the years there have been endless postings on forums such as Slashdot about how microkernels are slow, how microkernels are hard to program, how they aren't in use commercially, and a lot of other nonsense. Virtually all of these postings have come from people who don't have a clue what a microkernel is or what one can do. I think it would raise the level of discussion if people making such postings would first try a microkernel-based operating system [...]. Has a lot more credibility."
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2006-03-03
Well I was bored, so I found NetBSD 1.1, and lites, and got it booting!
Ok so its a microkernel but it feels like netbsd.. Honestly you have seen one you have seen them all. On the other hand it is sort of cool to have setup. Now lites is from 1996 I wonder would anyone even be remotly interesting in updating lites/mach4 since its all 'cool micro kernel'. Part of me says this is a fad and that nobody will largely care.
ftp://flux.cs.utah.edu/flux/mach/
http://ftp.riken.go.jp/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-archive/NetBSD-1.1/i386/
For the adventerious. Also boot it with grub the netbsd 1.x loaders dont like the mach kernels.
Now for a little useless trivia, the NetBSD 1.1 mirrors are all but broken.. Is it a sad/bad thing to see old BSD getting wiped out?