[vezzy-fnord]

The sardonic introduction and the fact that I initially misread his name as Alan Kay made this all the better for me, but then I came to my senses.

Alan Cox is just as interesting of a figure, though, and this is certainly a cool project. One might berate as to why we need another toy Unix, but I personally like having diverse itches scratched. Not to mention this might be an easier introduction to low-level OS hacking than having to deal with all the cognitive overhead of contributing to larger projects like Linux and the BSDs (and then a non-x86 arch is always nice).

[Dewie]

> Not to mention this might be an easier introduction to low-level OS hacking than having to deal with all the cognitive overhead of contributing to larger projects like Linux and the BSDs

Do you have an opinion on Minix, in this respect?

[tracker1]

I'd really love to see a micro-kernel with just enough drivers to run on modern hardware, then tied to a higher level platform. I know it may seem really weird, but would love to see node running on something like this. I know there's been some work on getting something like node working with embedded systems via translation, or communication channels, it'd just be nice to see this micro application to something larger, and removing the extra overhead in said system.

Again, just a weird, warped thought here... Hell even getting golang or or rust would be cool. Something you can run some code on without a lot of baggage that you aren't using. I love where coreos is heading, and would love to see something even lighter.

[justincormack]

Look at rumpkernel, OSv, the x-on-Xen solutions eg Mirage.