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Akaros - open source, GPL-licensed operating system for manycore architectures
- aray 13y agoPoking around a bit, I can't see much that this adds beyond what you can do with the Linux kernel, except where it basically breaks virtualization containerization. If you care enough about workload performance to break the strong statement of separation that virtualization affords, why not just run unvirtualized in the first place. The rest looks a lot like LXC+cgroups.
- chrisballinger 13y agoCool to see this posted here, I know one of the guys working on it. It would be nice if they provided some compiled/preconfigured images for VirtualBox or VMware to play with though.
- jboynyc 13y agoYes, that's what I expected to find when I clicked on "Getting Started." However, that just shows you the location of their code repository.
- NTDF9 13y agoResources section of that webpage needs to have more. Until I look at the source code, I can't figure out what exactly is different from linux and how said differences matter/help.
- e12e 13y agoIt would appear that this project shares some goals with Dragonfly BSD[1] -- apart from the choice of foundation (fork FreeBSD vs GNU/Linux) -- are there any notable differences? [1] http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ http://www.dragonflybsd.org/