yea sorry i don't know much but from the info i got on the mailing lists, i believe viengoos and the entire gnu/hurd is in a corpse status and i think work on linux libre has become the gnu kernel please correct me if i am wrong. i think thats what they use in gnewsense and its the fsf officially supported distro.
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Neal H. Walfield <[email protected]> wrote: > At Fri, 3 Dec 2010 19:54:19 -0800 (PST), > Dok Sander wrote: >> I'd like to know the status of the Viengoos project. Is it still active? >> Looking at git: >> >> last change Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:34:13 +0000 > > The right branch to look at is viengoos-on-bare-metal, not master. > >> The question is: Is there still a project for a new GNU microkernel >> aside GNU Mach? Is Viengoos it or are there new projects blooming? > > I have not been actively working on Viengoos for over a year. This is > unlikely to change in the near future. > > You should not think of Viengoos as the successor to Mach. Viengoos > is highly experimental; some of the techniques it employs, in > particular, those related to memory management and IPC, are unproven. > These were motivated by shortcomings in Mach as well as current > operating systems. A research system is unlikely the best base for a > product. A better approach is to view Viengoos as an experimental > platform whose goal is to explore solutions to some of the issues > uncovered by the Hurd. Knowledge gained can then be integrate into > something like Mach. > > Neal > >
