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» Elysium
   Main idea: enforce no abstractions, rather, have them as options, to all levels of system: hardware, kernel and file services, ways users interact with system; based on exo principles. Descriptions, news. [Open Source]
   http://elysium.sourceforge.net/

» Exokernel
   Growing article, with links to many related topics. Wikipedia.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exokernel

» Exokernel: An Operating System Architecture for Application-Level Resource Management
   Traditional OSs limit application performance, flexibility, functionality by fixing interfaces and implementations of OS abstractions such as interprocess communication and virtual memory. Exokernel address this via application-level management of physica
   http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.52.2893

» MIT Exokernel OS
   Puts applications in control, runs 10x or more faster. Exopc and XOK versions run on x86 PCs. ExOS library gives user-level extensible implementation of Unix OS, so most applications compile and run with no change. Download. [Open Source, MIT]
   http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/exo.html

» Miranda
   Planned features: Exokernel architecture, object-oriented, POSIX compliant, intuitive GUI, and best technologies: journaled main filesystems, LibOS modular library. Development documentation. [Open Source, LGPL]
   http://miranda-os.sourceforge.net/

» Miranda: SourceForge
   Downloads, announcements, and a forum. Programming languages: Assembly, C, and C++.
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/miranda-os/

» Nanokernel
   Growing article, with links to many related topics. Wikipedia.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanokernel

» dr'ex
   Exokernel written in C/asm for the x86 architecture. Released under GPL.
   http://drex.sourceforge.net/

» dr'ex: SourceForge
   Information, news, forum, CVS, downloads. [Open Source, GPL]
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/drex/

» miray Software
   Makes µnOS: 72k microkernel on 8k nanokernel client/server architecture based on OOP framework, symmetric multithreading, multitasking, priority based scheduling, fully interruptible, separated address spaces, and full memory protection. Free download.
   http://www.miray.de/home/