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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 7th Nov 2009 14:33 UTC, submitted by J!NX

Debian GNU/Hurd can now be installed a little easier. "This month Philip Charles created a new installation CD, the L series, for the Hurd, which brings us a big step towards installing the Hurd from the Hurd (without the need of a Linux-based installer). If you enjoy testing stuff, please give it a try."

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RE[3]: This is cool.

by vivainio on Sun 8th Nov 2009 23:03 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: This is cool."

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2008-12-26

NT, OSX, and QNX say "what's up"

NT and OSX aren't microkernels. E.g. read http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MicroKernel (yes, there are more authoritary links, but who has time for that?).

QNX might be, though.

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RE[4]: This is cool.

by tylerdurden on Sun 8th Nov 2009 23:15 in reply to "RE[3]: This is cool."

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2009-03-17

Both kernel teams for OSX and Windows consider their products microkernels, and operate and develop them as such. So I'll take it from the fish's mouth, rather than from someone who heard stories about fishing ;-)

The BSD portion of OSX still is implemented as a server on top of mach. And same can be said about the NT kernel, even though there have been some modifications/deviations to try to make the common case fast.

Things evolve, but it would be the same as claiming how solaris is not an unix because it is not the very same as the original 1st edition of Unix 30+ years ago.

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