Minoca OS
Dev tools
operating system kernel
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
2 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score -0.22.
Idea: 1 for, 3 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstPricing: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting project with a clean-slate approach
From 2 comments
Is this a commercial product? If so, what's your business model? This looks really neat by the way.
qz_ on HNInteresting. How much "smaller" is this in practice than a stripped down Linux image?
matsur on HN
Objections
Novel proprietary kernels are hard to make commercially viable
From 1 comment
I suspect novel proprietary kernels are a very difficult business niche. I'm unaware of any new commercially viable OS kernel that has come along in the past decade...maybe even…
SwellJoe on HN
Closed binary, so hard to trust without source
From 2 comments
It looks like this is a closed binary blob. Disappointing, since I'm curious to see what exactly it does differently. I'm also not entirely sure why I would want to use this over…
ori_b on HNThe problem is that as long as the kernel is proprietary, people have no reason to trust it to run that kind of hardware.
cbd1984 on HN
No real-time guarantees yet
From 1 comment
Not at the moment, but our interrupt overhead and number of background tasks is so low it's something we're thinking about. Is there a specific scenario you're trying to enable?
EvanGr on HN
Download page lacks team and business details
From 1 comment
That page is really missing a description who is maintaining it (who is the team, how big is it, where is it located?), especially if it is marketed as a commercial offer. I…
Matthias247 on HN
Requests
Provide a way to try it in the browser
From 1 comment
It would be really awesome if you could provide a quick and easy way to test it. If this is really so small one possibility would be to port to run on one of the many JavaScript…
api on HN
Real-time guarantees for Raspberry Pi
From 2 comments
Can it provide any real-time guarantees? The main reason why I would change OS on the Raspberry Pi 3 is to get real-time behavior.
projektfu on HNI don't mind the "heaviness" of Linux on the RPi but I cannot rely on its user-space interrupts for GPIO use from userland. Instead, I have to write kernel software or give up on…
projektfu on HN
Clearer licensing and source access details
From 2 comments
Just a quick review of the site - the "Product" page - shows a lite version and a pro. Lite has debugging symbols built in that can't be stripped. It is compiled at a lower…
smhenderson on HN(emphasis mine): > It says for Access to Source: Lite - Limited, Pro - Unlimited In the software world I'd consider anything less than BSD/MIT licensed source code limited.
koolba on HN
Questions
What is the market niche versus Linux?
From 2 comments
I suspect novel proprietary kernels are a very difficult business niche. I'm unaware of any new commercially viable OS kernel that has come along in the past decade...maybe even…
SwellJoe on HNIt looks like this is a closed binary blob. Disappointing, since I'm curious to see what exactly it does differently. I'm also not entirely sure why I would want to use this over…
ori_b on HN
Is it a commercial product and what is the business model?
From 1 comment
Is this a commercial product? If so, what's your business model? This looks really neat by the way.
qz_ on HN
Alternatives named
Linux
From 1 comment
I suspect novel proprietary kernels are a very difficult business niche. I'm unaware of any new commercially viable OS kernel that has come along in the past decade...maybe even…
SwellJoe on HN
QNX
From 1 comment
QNX is a commercially successful micro-kernel being used in automotive industries.
riyadparvez on HN
eCOS and RTEMS
From 1 comment
People used to use eCOS and RTEMS for this stuff. Plenty of components available for each, too. Anyone wanting minimal OS should check them out.
nickpsecurity on HN
VxWorks and Integrity
From 1 comment
Yeah, but you need to design an OS from scratch to supported these hard realtime and safety requirements. There are a few ones out there (VxWorks, Integrity, ...). But the linked…
Matthias247 on HN