Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I worked on the OSKit when I was an undergrad at Utah, and it was an incredibly fun project. I think it petered out becau

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I worked on the OSKit when I was an undergrad at Utah, and it was an incredibly fun project. I think it petered out because the middle ground that it was trying to serve between tiny embedded devices and big computers became capable enough that running a small, full Linux system on them was no longer prohibitive for most of the uses the OSKit targeted. That, and the flux research group started spending a lot more time on Emulab (a project that is still running an incredibly valuable to the networking and systems research communities). Bryan Ford who was the lead author on the OSkit paper, left for a startup around the time it was published, (and is now a professor at EPFL). There's also a bit of a theme of the pendulum swinging back and forth in what systems research is interested in, and the OSKit was released towards the end of the big push in microkernels, but a little bit too early to be relevant for a lot of the manycore research that came in the late 2000s.