From L3 to seL4 what have we learnt in 20 years of L4 microkernels? [video]

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  • motor-os

    A simple, fast, and secure operating system for the cloud.

  • Motūrus OS (https://github.com/moturus/motor-os) has a newer microkernel.

  • seL4

    The seL4 microkernel

  • > People like to snob Unix but the fact is: the world runs on Unix.

    The world you are aware of runs on it.

    > Can we really do that much better or is it just hubris?

    Yes. Have a look at seL4[1] and Barrelfish too[2], even though that's no longer active. seL4 in particular is powering a lot of highly secure computing systems. There is a surprisingly large sphere outside of Unix/POSIX.

    [1] https://sel4.systems/

    [2] https://barrelfish.org/

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