TOtodsacerdoti·Apr 9, 2025Submission
1 points · Open discussionBarrelfishOS
barrelfish
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BarrelfishOS / barrelfish
barrelfish
Mirror of the official Barrelfish OS repository.
2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
240GitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
Mirror of the official Barrelfish OS repository.
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Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
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Also in these discussions
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by hour2 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2025-04-09 07:47:08 UTC to 2025-04-09 14:46:33 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Apr 9, 07:00 | 2025-04-09 07:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-09 08:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 9, 08:00 | 2025-04-09 08:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-09 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 9, 09:00 | 2025-04-09 09:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-09 10:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 9, 10:00 | 2025-04-09 10:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-09 11:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 9, 11:00 | 2025-04-09 11:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-09 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 9, 12:00 | 2025-04-09 12:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-09 13:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 9, 13:00 | 2025-04-09 13:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-09 14:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 9, 14:00 | 2025-04-09 14:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-09 15:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesHave you looked at Barrelfish (2011) from Microsoft Research and ETH Zurich?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/barrelfish-exp...
> “In the next five to 10 years,” Barham predicts, “there are going to be many varieties of multicore machines. There are going to be a small number of each type of machine, and you won’t be able to afford to spend two years rewriting an operating system to work on each new machine that comes out. Trying to write the OS so it can be installed on a completely new computer it’s never seen before, measure things, and think about the best way to optimize itself on this computer—that’s quite a different approach to making an operating system for a single, specific multiprocessor.” The problem, the researchers say, stems from the use of a shared-memory kernel with data structures protected by locks. The Ba
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rrelfish project opts instead for a distributed system in which each unit communicates explicitly.
Public development stopped in March 2020, https://github.com/BarrelfishOS/barrelfish & https://barrelfish.org