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HelenOS - the operating system that launched a thousand processes

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On March 10, 2010, the HelenOS project released version 0.4.2 of their operating system. HelenOS sits on top of the SPARTAN kernel, which supports SMP, multi-tasking and multi-threading on a variety of common architectures. One of the developers behind HelenOS, Jakub Jermar, was willing to take time out of his busy schedule to answer some questions.

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Comments (3)

TxtEdMacs ·
Windows launches a myriad of processes routinely and most don't know what they are doing*.

YBT

* Actually no one at MS knows either.
bigg ·
In fact, Windows is even better, because you can launch thousands of processes at no cost, using the computers of people you've never met.
TxtEdMacs ·
bigg,

At least a plus five there (and insightful), because that had not even occurred to me. I was still thinking single user machine and all that ...

YBT

P.S. I am leaving before others have deep insights. Call me clueless.

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