"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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Member since:2005-07-08
I also hope that it does repeat the successes of current operative systems - too often, people write new OS to "fix the problems of UNIX" and then they fall in the stupid error of avoiding everything that looks like Unix, even if it's good (and there're a lot of good things in unix).
That said, if a OS like Plan9 isn't getting mainstream, I very much doubt any other research OS will have better success.
Edited 2007-08-16 18:49
Member since:2005-07-06
i kinda recall plan9 not being free (in both sense of the word) until recently. so im not surprised that it didnt go mainstream.
still, there seems to be more and more stuff from it showing up in linux. i recall reading about p9fs or whatever its called, and maybe that network protocol to.
Edited 2007-08-16 19:16
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2005-07-29
At last a new operating system written from scratch and not another unix variant, new fresh air for the world of operating systems
I hope that as is developed from scratch it not repeat the limitations and errors of current Operating systems