Minoca OS goes open source

Posted Nov 2, 2016 9:57 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Minoca OS goes open source by Cyberax
Parent article: Minoca OS goes open source

There are other very interesting new approaches to OS development, like http://osv.io/

New? That appears to be a reinvention of the idea of running a simple single-tasking OS on top of a hypervisor. Pioneered in IBM CP/CMS from the sixties...

Minoca OS goes open source

Posted Nov 2, 2016 15:25 UTC (Wed) by miquels (guest, #59247) [Link]

Yeah, unikernels .. why do people keep re-inventing them, we've had one for a long time, FreeDOS.

Minoca OS goes open source

Posted Nov 2, 2016 18:22 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Everything was invented in Multics and since then people have been reinventing it. Duh.

However, it's the first modern OS built on that idea with attention to performance inside containers.