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Does anyone know if Hurd will ever be production worthy? Impressive progress nonetheless from what I understand. I know it must be difficult to get developers as there are so many people using Linux & BSD. Fuchsia is supposed to be a micro-kernel too right? I wonder if there could be a libre fork of that.

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Speaking of microkernels, MINIX 3 is open source, unlike the version of MINIX that inspired Linus to write Linux.

MINIX 3, unlike earlier versions, aims to be used in production rather than being purely a research OS.

MINIX 3 has incorporated code from NetBSD making it possible to run a lot of software on MINIX 3 from the NetBSD ports collection.

I have not used MINIX but I remain interested in it and think it deserves a mention.

Thanks for the reply! I have one of Tanenbaum's old books. Perhaps time to read it.

Google Fuchsia is based on Google Magenta micromernel. But they are slightly different story. Google is trying to make a whole new OS for embedded system. I mean it is not aiming POSIX-compability.

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