> > At one point wasn't there an embedded OS based on > the > > Solaris kernel? > > Chorus? > > ChorusOS was his own OS that Sun acquired. They also > acquired Cobalt systems which ran RedHat Linux ported > to the MIPS processor. > > Both product lines were killed shortly thereafter, > however ChorusOS has been open sourced and released > to the public.
See http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaluna Sometimes I wonder that nobody is trying to re-create Chorus/MiX (SVR4 personality multi-server implementation on top of Chorus microkernel) using Jaluna code plus OpenSolaris code (for an approximation of SVR4 e.g. filesystem and other code) as a starting point; seems to me that Chorus/MiX would have been on a level of coolness approximating that of HURD, Apollo Domain/OS (had it ever been open sourced), Spring (ditto), or the like. Of course, some would say that the microkernel is semi-dead, given the message passing overhead (or whatever the fully clueful version of that argument is). But the level of flexibility, extensibility, and in some multi-server implementations, ability to recover from even driver or filesystem errors without crashing, IMO remains interesting. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
