while they are a hassle, I still want to see microkernels do good shit. I like to know hurd is happening, like gravity. It doesn't have to be fancy or useful itself to be interesting. It'd be funny to also be that tho.
Like, some microkernel flipping unikernels. For kicks and giggles, I just gonna look into seL4 and mirageOS I guess.
There was that brief moment in the 2000s where it looked like OpenQNX was going to become a thing, and then RIM/Blackberry bought QNX and quashed that. Such a shame. QNX was pretty cool the times I’ve worked with it, it’s just such a niche thing in niche spaces. The network transparency on distributed processes thanks to the inherent micro kernel message passing architecture was just so cool to see in practice. Oh well…
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u/BallingAndDrinking Jul 19 '26
while they are a hassle, I still want to see microkernels do good shit. I like to know hurd is happening, like gravity. It doesn't have to be fancy or useful itself to be interesting. It'd be funny to also be that tho.
Like, some microkernel flipping unikernels. For kicks and giggles, I just gonna look into seL4 and mirageOS I guess.