Miles Fidelman wrote at 2014-07-22 08:25 -0500: > Meanwhile, it sure looks like the OpenSolaris spawn (Illumos, > OpenIndiana, Nexanta, SmartOS, ... ) are gathering steam as a > serious third alternative to Linux and the BSDs. And with enough > mid-sized commercial players that we don't have a situation where > one company can force something down everybody's throats. > > Gotta say, as soon as there's a Xen Dom0 for either FreeBSD or > Illumos, I'll seriously look at moving. I have been looking at NetBSD, it supports Xen dom0. Like you, I wish for a solid, slim core system with adequate virtualization support to run Linux if necessary. I have also been looking at microkernels for some time now, Minix has some fascinating reliability features[1][2] built in and plans for more. [1]: http://www.minix3.org/other/reliability.html [2]: http://www.minix3.org/docs/jorrit-herder/osr-jul06.pdf It is ironic that a major argument against microkernels is reduced performance from context switching. But the monolithic Linux kernel (now with systemd) has become unmanageably large so now we consider virtualization, on top of a slimmer core, with its own consequent performance loss, for the sake of reliability.
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