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Reimplementation in ANSI C of Unix v6 + POSIX compliance + VFS + ulibc + ACPI

3 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2015-11-16 · latest 2022-08-02

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  1. I checked. It's definitely a fork. Eg, compare https://github.com/NewbiZ/xv6/blob/master/fs/fs.c to https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-public/blob/master/fs.c . I didn't find a mention of the original copyright.
    comment by eesmith · 2022-08-02 · in Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
  2. …more readable code and modern build system, shameless plug of my attempt at some xv6 modernization: https://github.com/NewbiZ/xv6
    comment by Galanwe · 2022-08-02 · in Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
  3. …between distribution and kernel - A clean libc - Tons of other stuff You can find it here: https://github.com/NewbiZ/xv6 Considering the original build system, I think having a look at this just for the sake of the cleaner makefiles is…
    comment by Galanwe · 2015-11-16 · in Xv6