Re: [seL4] FYI: microkernel.info community site

2016-03-12 Thread Gernot Heiser
On 12 Mar 2016, at 2:03 , Alexander Senier wrote: > > when analyzing the statement carefully, you'll find that it's indeed > true. The seL4 source was *open-sourced* in July 2014 whereas the Muen > source was released in August 2013. > > But of cause you're right, we're not talking about the sa

Re: [seL4] FYI: microkernel.info community site

2016-03-10 Thread Gernot Heiser
Interesting statement on the Muen kernel section: "The world’s first Open Source microkernel that has been formally proven to contain no runtime errors at the source code level. “ We proved full functional correctness (which is a superset of absence of runtime errors) for seL4 in 2009. I must b

Re: "Microkernels rule!" and the Hurd

2008-08-13 Thread Gernot Heiser
> The Hurd did not repeat the errors of past. Work on the Hurd > started in 1990. It's that old? Apologies, should have checked my facts on that one. Gernot

Re: L4 meets the Hurd at the Congress in Berlin

2002-01-01 Thread Gernot Heiser
well defined concept with SawMill. Also, we don't tend to release stuff thats highly experimental/hacked/unstable. At the moment SawMill (or whatever it will be called) is too much of a moving target to be anywhere near a release. I hope this helps to clarify where Karlsruhe stands with re