Talk:Redox (operating system)

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Is it really a microkernel?[edit]

I'm not sure if it's a microkernel at the moment. The website says it *aims* to be a microkernel. The GitHub repository contains a directory called 'drivers', which contains only a few stubs. On the other hand, there's much more driver-related code under the directory 'kernel'. There's also a quote that may suggest it's not yet a microkernel:

Redox has ~16,000 lines of kernel code. For comparison the Minix has ~6,000 lines of kernel code. We would like to move parts of Redox to user space to get an even smaller kernel.^[1]

Rzhikharevich (talk) 18:20, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In the past months they rewrote the kernel and most of the drivers has been moved to the userspace. ^[2]^[3] 94.21.141.62 (talk) 14:33, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References

Confusion about name[edit]

Is the article subject called Redox or Redox OS? The GitHub repository points at the prior. 80.221.159.67 (talk) 08:24, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, the Infoworld article also tells me that this is called Redox. Requesting a move. 80.221.159.67 (talk) 08:30, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://doc.redox-os.org/book/design/kernel/microkernels.html

[2] ttps://www.redox-os.org/news/this-summer-in-redox-15/

[3] ttps://github.com/redox-os/kernel/tree/master/drivers

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