On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:29:57AM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote:
>
> executables. There is a caveat compared to AROS: AmigaDOS is a shared
> address-space OS, whereas VMS has separate address spaces for each
> program. This might be a problem, though I believe there has been a
> unix on unix implementation (where each program got its own process
> space).
There exists at least UML == User Mode Linux. This is a port of the
Linux kernel to its own syscall interface. With UML you have a full
kernel running as a normal process - providing a full Linux environment.
This can be used for quite some interesting things - security (virtual
hosting, chroot() on steroids, ...) and development (debug the live
kernel, try to crash it, ...) are a few that come to mind.
Regards,
Alex.
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