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Re: Arix
« Reply #179 from previous page: June 20, 2014, 11:28:27 AM »
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So what's the point of having linux there and not be able to use it, might as well not be there at all.


I suppose the best way to think about it would be that AROS is the userland on top of a Linux kernel, normally Linux distributions tend to use a GNU Posix compatible userland on top if Linux.

Would it be a waste if I produced an OS that used a Linux kernel, but only included the GNUStep userland? ;)

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Re: Arix
« Reply #180 on: June 20, 2014, 02:53:23 PM »
So then essentially the Linux kernel is replacing Kickstart?
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« Reply #181 on: June 20, 2014, 03:13:17 PM »
ARIX is a hybrid kernel.  It's just AROS with sections borrowed from Linux.  Or it's Linux with an exclusive AROS compatibility harness.
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« Reply #182 on: June 20, 2014, 03:22:17 PM »
After reading back a few posts I'd say that it only uses part of the Linux kernel.  Not the whole thing.
 

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Re: Arix
« Reply #183 on: June 20, 2014, 03:39:12 PM »
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So then essentially the Linux kernel is replacing Kickstart?

Sound to me as they have created a wrapper for the Linux kernel models, but that's not so simple, as the it will need a large part of Linux kernel for it to function, it will need to support fork(), and other parts the kernel module might need.

I can't read from this if they need to adapt the Linux kernel modules for Arix or if they use the kernel modules unmodified.

I'm assuming the need to recompile and make small adjustments.
 

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Re: Arix
« Reply #184 on: June 20, 2014, 04:07:00 PM »
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ARIX is a hybrid kernel.  It's just AROS with sections borrowed from Linux.  Or it's Linux with an exclusive AROS compatibility harness.

That's not quite correct.  It's modified Linux kernel.  Arix uses a Linux kernel with an AROS shim/API translation layer sitting on top of that kernel.  This has been explained in depth by Michal Shulz, the lead Arix developer.
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Re: Arix
« Reply #185 on: June 20, 2014, 04:07:37 PM »
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Sound to me as they have created a wrapper for the Linux kernel models, but that's not so simple, as the it will need a large part of Linux kernel for it to function, it will need to support fork(), and other parts the kernel module might need.

I can't read from this if they need to adapt the Linux kernel modules for Arix or if they use the kernel modules unmodified.

I'm assuming the need to recompile and make small adjustments.


You are correct.

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Re: Arix
« Reply #186 on: October 07, 2014, 12:48:56 AM »
Bump.
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Re: Arix
« Reply #187 on: October 07, 2014, 01:03:27 AM »
Ship it already!