Apple makes OS X Server open source
News The company said it would release its OS X Server microkernel, called Mach, when it begins shipping the software. The open source portion of the OS, which is available for download now at Apple.com, will contain Apple's version of Apache server...
[March 17, 1999, 9:15]
Torvalds rubbishes core of Apple's OS X
News Frankly, I think it's a piece of crap," Torvalds says of Mach, the microkernel on which Apple's new operating system is based. The Mach microkernel is also being used as the core of Hurd, a kernel project from the Free Software Foundation that will...
[April 6, 2001, 13:27]
Virtualization Techniques for Embedded Systems
White Papers The authors ported a machine emulator supporting various architectures to run on a microkernel that runs on several architectures. This paper discusses benefits of using virtualization techniques on embedded system, introduce the implementation and...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
Linux kernel: Moving closer to Windows?
Talkback While the NT kernel is in fact a microkernel, its inherent implementation is very monolothic in nature so the benefits from a microkernel design are removed. The Linux kernel is far superior to the NT kernel.
[July 2, 2004, 17:28]
JBoss eyes front-end technologies
News JBoss also plans on packaging certain parts of the stack, such as the JBoss Microkernel, the core of its application server, so that companies realise they can use it as the base of their server applications.
[December 9, 2004, 16:40]
Linus Torvalds supports Apple computers
News In his forthcoming autobiography Just for Fun: the story of an accidental Revolutionary, Torvalds criticises the architecture of the Mach microkernel, which carries out the very basic operations at the heart of the Apple OS X, claiming that it has...
[April 10, 2001, 7:49]
Linux kernel: Moving closer to Windows?
Talkback Windows NT 3.0 was monolithic instead of microkernel, but the windowing code run as a protected process, not inside the kernel. THat was one reason why it was so slow. For NT 4.0 they decided to incorporate the windowing code into the kernel, so...
[July 9, 2004, 0:20]
Researchers prove kernel is secure
News The kernel is called the secure embedded L4 (seL4) microkernel. Lawrence Paulson, professor of computational logic at Cambridge University's Computer Laboratory, who developed the Isabelle generic proof assistant Nicta modified to check its kernel...
[August 14, 2009, 17:20]
US Report: Raw Iron alerts sceptics
News Sun will provide Oracle with a microkernel of its Solaris operating system to run in conjunction with Oracle's 8i database. Last Monday the company announced that Sun Microsystems Inc.is its first partner for the so-called Raw Iron project.
[December 21, 1998, 9:42]
Neutrino OS is Unix flavour of the month
News QNX (pronounced Cue-nix, rhymes with Unix) makes the embedded microkernel operating system that powers 3Com's new Audrey Net appliance and Netpliance's iOpener. Embedded operating systems are designed to be hidden from users.
[October 20, 2000, 8:32]
Will Longhorn outflank Java rivals?
Talkback DOS was bits and pieces (largely CP/M) taken from other sources, Windows originally (and for 9x, still is) a DOS shell with a GUI taken from Xerox PARC, WinNT is OS/2 2.1 (itself from the Carnegie-Mellon microkernel ) with the kludegy Windows GUI...
[October 30, 2003, 13:43]
Apple revs Mac OS Server update
News In fact, according to Apple representatives, the company plans to combine the features of both products in the next version of Server and place them on top of OS X's Darwin core, which is based on BSD and the Mach microkernel.
[January 19, 2001, 10:55]
Linux kernel: Moving closer to Windows?
Talkback Minix is a microkernel operating system, while most everything else including Linux is monolithic. This doesn't make any sense. Even though Russinovich is an NT expert, he has no clue about the architecture of Unix operating systems.
[July 2, 2004, 22:23]
Apple pitches Mac OS X to Linux fans
News The Mach microkernel on which the software is based, for example, supports kernel extensions, meaning that the kernel (or core) does not have to be recompiled in order to add new features. As interest in the open source Linux operating system has...
[October 10, 2002, 16:01]
Strengths of Open Source opposing Microsoft patent threats
Blog Comment NOTE: because some (opensource) apps are not pre-optimized for the mac, it is only fair that the configurations used for the tests be set-up properly for each platform by domain experts .there is the notorious example of an os/x benchmark for a...
[August 4, 2007, 20:32]
Torvalds: Next Linux due by June
News Mac OS X is built on an open-source foundation -- the Mach "microkernel" in combination with FreeBSD Unix -- but Apple still keeps much secret about OS X's inner workings. The next version of the heart of the Linux operating system is expected by...
[October 28, 2002, 9:01]
Open source mogul joins Apple
News Software called the Mach microkernel is at the deepest level of Darwin, with higher-level operating software from FreeBSD. Apple Computer has hired Jordan Hubbard, founder and leader of the effort behind the open-source FreeBSD version of Unix, to...
[June 27, 2001, 10:31]
Comdex: Ellison ups the ante
News Gates also railed on Microsoft's operating system strategy, claiming that the majority of users will be better served by the Raw Iron -- forthcoming Internet applications designed to run Oracle 8I on top of an embedded microkernel.
[November 17, 1998, 9:02]
