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Favorite flavor of UNIX?

Ademan555 · 2006-05-30T19:47:00

What is everyone's favorite UNIX KERNEL? I'm not concerned about desktop, simply the kernel. Also, why? The things i'm most concerned about are speed, security, and reliability/stability. What I actually want to do is create my own desktop for a UNIX kernel, and i was wondering what the "best" kernel to use would be. cheers -Dan

Everything Unix Technical

Started by Ademan555 April 09, 2006 05:58 PM

28 comments, last by chollida1 18 years, 3 months ago

Ademan555

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April 10, 2006 12:22 AM

Well i figured i was going to provide a windowing system, which provided an interface compatible with X calls, as well as gtk and such.

i thought everything looked like this:

--------------------| Application      |--------------------| X  | Gtk+  | Qt  |--------------------| Windowing System |--------------------

Where X, Gtk+ and Qt dont do much except for expose an interface for interacting with "Windowing System" to the application

i had hoped to provide "Windowing System" but maybe i need to look into the archetecture more

cheers
-Dan

[Edited by - Ademan555 on April 10, 2006 12:22:43 AM]

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necromancer_df

313

April 10, 2006 07:05 AM

Well it's more like this:

--------------------| Application      |--------------------| Gtk+   | Qt      |--------------------| Windowing System |--------------------

Where X IS the windowing system.

igni ferroque

415

April 10, 2006 08:15 AM

Before you decide that you want to write a windowing system from scratch, have a look at:

GGI Project
Fresco
Y Window System

Free Mac Mini (I know, I'm a tool)

Sander

1,332

April 10, 2006 12:07 PM

Allright, to top it off :-)

--------------------| Application      |--------------------|   Widget set     |  (Gtk, Qt)--------------------|  Window Manager  |  (Metacity, Comptiz)--------------------| Windowing System |  (X.org)--------------------

<hr />
Sander Marechal<small>[Lone Wolves][Hearts for GNOME][E-mail][Forum FAQ]</small>

Ravuya

136

April 11, 2006 04:02 AM

I don't think any pure UNIXes exist anymore, but I am a big fan of the L4 microkernel. It's making big advances, and there are already some desktop *nix projects using it (and I think GNU HURD is transitioning to it in addition to Mach soon).

Microkernel designs are surprisingly justifiable nowadays; the thread overhead is minimal now that technology companies are moving towards multi-core designs.

Of course, if you're building a desktop operating system, you'll need userland to go with your pretty kernel, and probably stacks of drivers, a graphical environment, window managers, etc. It's a pretty significant chunk of work -- why not just write a better window manager for Linux? I'm working on a super-minimal one in my spare time.

Bregma

9,461

April 11, 2006 01:10 PM

Perhaps its more like this.

+-----------------------+| Application           |+-----------------------+| Gtk+      | Qt        |+-----------------------+    +-------------------+| Windowing Client Libs |    | Windowing Server  |------------------------+----+-------------------+|      OS Kernel                                 |+------------------------------------------------+

Stephen M. Webb
Professional Free Software Developer

Mare

140

April 21, 2006 04:27 AM

Quote: Original post by Ademan555
What is everyone's favorite UNIX

Irix (Irix64)

Sure its old and 'bland' looking but its rock solid and has such a great compiler suite. Though maybe the 3D OpenGL data array viewer is a tad overkill for a debugger :D

Code_Dark

429

May 03, 2006 01:28 AM

Quote: Original post by Promit
Gonna have to go with BSD on that one...not any specific BSD, just the family as a whole.

Same, except I'll specify to FreeBSD for desktop, NetBSD for servers, OpenBSD for gateways/ubersecure servers.

Marmin

523

May 08, 2006 07:48 AM

Take a look at the 2.6.16 kernel. I'm going to try compile it myself if I've gained enough courage and experience. Lots of additions, speed improvements, etc. for what i've read from others users posts.
:D

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abdulla

164

May 08, 2006 08:05 AM

L4Linux, 'cause I'm weird. It'd be nice to see Darwin ported to sit atop L4, it seems Mach is pulling it in to the dumps of late. And now Avie is gone, it could be possible.

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