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Interesting OS tidbits

Monday, June 15, 2009

Spent some time on Sunday reading about various operating systems. Fun things learnt: 1. /proc (procfs), as a concept, originated from Plan 9. 2. Windows NT’s kernel is a microkernel, just like Minix and Hurd. Well, not just like. NT isn’t a pure microkernel, but I had no idea it even used some microkernel concepts. […]

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LPC Rocked!

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

I’ve been a pretty lax blogger of late, well always, but nowadays I have a lot more interesting stuff to blog about and seemingly even less time to do it. The reason I’m breaking with tradition is that I spent last week at the Linux Plumbers Conference and Kristen Carlson Accardi, the conference organiser, requested […]

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