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Peerix is an UNIX-like operating system designed to run in a distributed environment in which the runtime objects in RAM, the filing system and network/internet mediums are all unified into a single tree called a nodal network. It aims to use the set of GNU UNIX-like components for low-level hardware integration operations such as memory-management and the nodal environment for high-level network and resource allocation layers, and to provide the user interface.
The source-based methodology used by the GNU Linux community means that the operating system can work on a wide range of computer hardware available now and in the future. The PC (x86) and Mac (PPC) platforms are the most common, but many others are supported. It should be possible to have Peerix operating system work in a similar way on Mac, PC, Palm, even iPod and PSP.
To allow the nodal environment to integrate more tightly with the hardware, some of the core UNIX-like components could also be modified. One of these modifications would be to the filesystem making it a part of the nodal network which unifies the filespace with the runtime object space and the global nodal space.
The ultimate goal for Peerix would be for it to use a kernel based on nodal reduction. Replacing the Linux kernel is considered being a very tall order though, because of its complexity and the fact it consists of over 6 million lines of code.
Peerix is still in the early stages of development.
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