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For Mail/Calendar/Contacts/Tasks you should really consider Evolution. I've switched ~2 years ago, and it's amazing. Stable, sleek, and with tons of options. It has a bad reputatio…

Centralization is a _huge_ privacy issue. Specially when combined with real world data, like a phone number. Let's assume OWS is playing nice, and they really don't store any relev…

That comes from upstream's README.md. I've never payed any attention to it, but now that you've pointed it out, I'm seriously considering changing that paragraph, or adding a note/…

Telegram-FOSS (the FOSS friendly fork you can find on F-Droid, not the official app on Play Store) maintainer here. Telegram is NOT a "secure messaging app".

Three days ago, a Jolla C replaced an iPhone 5S as my main phone. To be fair, me using iOS was just a kind of an experiment. Before that, I was using a CM build without Google Apps…

At flexVDI, we use Xamarin for building our macOS client (Xamarin.Mac), sharing most of the code with the client for Windows, built with Visual Studio. Both of them, link against a…

I'm not talking about the efficency of the resulting binary, but the "distance" from what the programmer is thinking , to what the machine will really do. Compiler optimizations as…

I can't help but think they're trying to fix something that isn't broken at all. Adding new abstraction layers rarely helps when doing systems programming. You (as in "the develope…

Sorry if I'm too harsh, but saying that ZoL is "rock solid" and "production ready" sounds like a joke to my ears. ZFS is an extremely complex filesystem, and it took Sun _years_ of…

The OSF vs GNU Mach thing is not a problem. It was years ago, but I managed to run a Hurd translator statically linked against a slightly modified glibc on OSF Mach (the one bundle…

A curious (and probably unintended) side effect, is that if its implementation of the Mach API is complete enough, this should allow to run Hurd user space server/translators on Fr…

Communication would've happened, but probably between far less actors. So, you have a communication channel which is orders of magnitude slower, and bigger communication needs. Not…

I don't know about the others, but at least both QNX and Minix3 cheated a little, i.e. allowing servers to write directly to other user space programs. Also, the presence of microk…

You've just hit the nail right on the head.

I don't know about other implementations, but I remember the original design of l4hurd (based on L4Ka), was even more complex. I'd same this applies to all "pure" multiserver desig…

Some years ago, I've spent a lot of time studying GNU Mach and Hurd (I've also made some small contributions). I think I can say that I now both pretty well. I even started a proje…

Of course, a virtualized Guest will have a performance penalty. With that phrase I meant that, following this guide, you can make use of the Virtualization Extensions from the Cort…

Sorry, we've underestimated the attention this post was going to get. We've just assigned more resources to that machine. Let's hope that'll be enough to bear with the warm, warm h…

While reading "LINUX is obsolete (1992)", this relatively unknown article has come to my mind. It's a pretty good read about a real world implementation of a microkernel architectu…

I did some small contributions to GNU Hurd years ago, but still, this made me giggle: Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now everyone will be runni…

Nice, just a few weeks ago I finished my port of socz80 to DE0-nano ( https://github.com/slp/socz80-de0_nano ). Apparently, the original socz80 is already supported on Fuzix, so it…