On May 20, 2006, at 3:33 AM, Matej Kosik wrote:
>
> Maybe advantage of Minix3 over every other operating system I know  
> is, that all (but one) device drivers are in user space. This has  
> many direct implications (they can be conveniently devoloped, when  
> some experimental driver crashes, it does not cause the whole  
> system to crash, faulty experimental drivers can be automatically  
> restarted, etc.)
>

I seem to recall you posting to e-lang... you might be interested in  
EROS (http://www.eros-os.org/eros.html)... version 2 was slated to  
have drivers in user space.  EROS's successor Coyotos  
(www.coyotos.org) also looks interesting; I wish I had time to give  
it more than a glance.

Josh