The Design and Implementation of the Anykernel and Rump Kernels

book.rumpkernel.org

85 points·danieljh··3 comments

Is anyone playing with this? I read whenever people post this stuff here, and this book is very interesting and I will peruse despite being way above my understanding and I am curious who is doing something crazy with NetBSD which I find fascinating as well since the first toaster jokes I heard.

I think that everyone, thanks to container and general virtualization acceptance are moving in a slightly different direction, but I thought rump kernels and Metasepi (also posted here a few times) blew my mind and thought we can start bootstrapping more secure foundational OS layers below legacy applications Unix has bequeathed us forever.

http://www.metasepi.org/

There's a growing number of users, but they aren't centrally collected. I've actually thought about creating a "Who uses rump kernels" page, but haven't gotten around to it. No better time than now to do that:

http://wiki.rumpkernel.org/Info%3A-Who-Uses-Rump-Kernels

(don't expect it to be highly populated yet, I just created it and seeded it with the project I'm affiliated with)

You do this on your time, so I expect nothing.

Thanks for letting me know. I have to avoid people like you. I have tons of HW and I can never finish it because I drown in all the interesting system design and articles here. GO AWAY! Haha.

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