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I hear Hurd is making some progress...

• shadowfox 15y ago
  I guess no thread on Microkernels is complete without bringing up Hurd :P There are at least a few microkernel implementations beside Minix that are in use/more or less stable/shows some viability. (E.g. QNX, L4 family and to some extent EROS family) They have received nowhere as much attention as something like Linux. So the usability is not really up there.
  • william42 15y ago
    Is that because of usability or network effects, though?
    • wmf 15y ago
      QNX is proprietary and is very expensive (with occasional free demos). The only useful thing you can run on L4 is Linux, but that's pointless. EROS/CapROS/Coyotos never had any useful userspace.