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Funny there doesn't seem to be an OSS attempt of something like it... ( Or my google-fu is weak )

frik 9y ago
Google Fuchsia is a capability-based, real-time operating system (RTOS) being developed by Google. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia 15 years ago I waited for GNU Hurd, but now I am very interested how Google Fuchsia turns out. What I read it shapes up nicely, and I can imagine we all will use it in near future instead of Windows and other binary blob legacy operating systems; it might also replace Linux as Android kernel - but that is still just speculation.
- Animats 9y ago
  That's going to be interesting. Some of the people at Google working on it are ex-QNX people.
  - nickpsecurity 9y ago
    Oh hell. I was initially skeptical but my hopes are up now that you say that.
  - bitmapbrother 9y ago
    I know some are ex BeOS people, but I haven't heard of anyone from QNX on the project. Apple did hire the founder of QNX not too long ago, though.
tyingq 9y ago
FreeRTOS is here: http://www.freertos.org/ http://www.freertos.org/ Though the "RT" is the only real overlap. It's targeted more at lower end hardware, but does have an x86 implementation.
nickpsecurity 9y ago
Minix 3 for reliability part, DROPS for real-time part, OKL4 for mobile, and Genode for security part are basically it that I'm aware. It's really the mix of capabilities in one system that makes QNX great. I don't know anything that has that despite the architecture described in great detail in freely-available papers. Just waiting to be cloned or improved on. :) http://www.minix3.org/doc/reliable-os.pdf http://www.minix3.org/doc/reliable-os.pdf https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/drops/overview.html https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/drops/overview.html http://l4hq.org/projects/kernel/ http://l4hq.org/projects/kernel/ https://genode.org/about/index https://genode.org/about/index
behnamoh 9y ago
> "google-fu" nice combination!

frik 9y ago

Google Fuchsia is a capability-based, real-time operating system (RTOS) being developed by Google. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia 15 years ago I waited for GNU Hurd, but now I am very interested how Google Fuchsia turns out. What I read it shapes up nicely, and I can imagine we all will use it in near future instead of Windows and other binary blob legacy operating systems; it might also replace Linux as Android kernel - but that is still just speculation.

Animats 9y ago
That's going to be interesting. Some of the people at Google working on it are ex-QNX people.
- nickpsecurity 9y ago
  Oh hell. I was initially skeptical but my hopes are up now that you say that.
- bitmapbrother 9y ago
  I know some are ex BeOS people, but I haven't heard of anyone from QNX on the project. Apple did hire the founder of QNX not too long ago, though.

tyingq 9y ago

FreeRTOS is here: http://www.freertos.org/ http://www.freertos.org/ Though the "RT" is the only real overlap. It's targeted more at lower end hardware, but does have an x86 implementation.

nickpsecurity 9y ago

Minix 3 for reliability part, DROPS for real-time part, OKL4 for mobile, and Genode for security part are basically it that I'm aware. It's really the mix of capabilities in one system that makes QNX great. I don't know anything that has that despite the architecture described in great detail in freely-available papers. Just waiting to be cloned or improved on. :) http://www.minix3.org/doc/reliable-os.pdf http://www.minix3.org/doc/reliable-os.pdf https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/drops/overview.html https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/drops/overview.html http://l4hq.org/projects/kernel/ http://l4hq.org/projects/kernel/ https://genode.org/about/index https://genode.org/about/index

behnamoh 9y ago

> "google-fu" nice combination!