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by Maursault
1479 days ago
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>> The Singularity research codebase and design evolved to become the Midori advanced-development OS project. While never reaching commercial release, at one time Midori powered all of Microsoft’s natural language search service for the West Coast and Asia. > https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/singularity... > Ironically, despite still having the Linux kernel underneath and enough C++, Android and ChromeOS are probably the mainstream OSes that are closer to the overall idea, at least in what concerns userspace applications. Singularity uses a proprietary language-based microkernel. Midori was allegedly an attempt at a commercial version of Singularity, and I'm not sure what is different about the two, but Midori also uses a microkernel. Linux famously uses a monolithic kernel. Also, consider, any operating system that uses the Linux kernel... is Linux by definition, though technically Linux is the kernel, GNU/Linux is the OS. There is a piece of container management software, I think that's what it is, called Singularity, and it uses the Linux kernel running on Linux. Maybe you were thinking of the wrong Singularity. |
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Midori has nothing to do with Singularity in architecture other than being a second attempt from the same group of researchers at a memory safe OS.
Android and Chrome OS aren't Linux, they use a highly customized Linux kernel, in fact after Project Treble it is so customized that it could almost be considered a pseudo-microkernel, as all Treble drivers exist as user processes, use Android IPC to talk to the kernel and since Android 8 all drivers must be Treble based (Android considers the Linux kernel drivers as "legacy drivers").
Finally I don't see how Singularity and the Linux kernel have anything to do with each other, my examples with Android and ChromeOS are what I mentioned in relation with the Linux kernel.