I agree with you; lunatik is related to the other work in that they're both on NetBSD, and I think Marc Balmer is driving the userspace work, and at least famil

I agree with you; lunatik is related to the other work in that they're both on NetBSD, and I think Marc Balmer is driving the userspace work, and at least familiar w/ the kernel-space work, so there's cross-pollination of talent. Honestly, I think I would rather see the userspace work out of core (ie: not shipping w/ NetBSD) and just put into pkgsrc (NetBSD version of Ports, or dpkg, etc) as a NetBSD-only package. The kernel work -- I'm just not familiar with deep kernel hacking, so perhaps it's my ignorance, but an interp in-kernel doesn't sound attractive to me. I think I'd rather see kernel access pushed to userspace, like FUSE/PUFFS[1] does for filesystems, or even how procfs allows reading/writing kernel from userspace. Jamming more into the kernel, especially an interpretter makes me shake my head. It could be fun as a personal project, or a Clever Hack, but for a shipping production-ready system... reminds me of when RedHat introduced it's in-kernel http server[2]. All that said -- NetBSD is _still_ the most attractive Unix I'm aware of. I occasionally consider a Linux or FreeBSD, but haven't left yet, since NetBSD 1.6 (c. 2002) [1] http://www.netbsd.org/docs/puffs/ http://www.netbsd.org/docs/puffs/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUX_web_server http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUX_web_server