One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V
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- Yuri Zaporozhets develops innovative computing projects, frequently announcing new achievements.
- He created the GateMate PC, a RISC-V-based system inspired by early IBM PCs, using an FPGA board.
- He also built the GateMate System/359, a small mainframe on FPGA as a tribute to IBM System/360.
- Zaporozhets ported QNX 6.4 to RISC-V, resulting in the QRV operating system after a substantial rewrite.
- Due to QNX's licensing restrictions, he developed QSOE, an OS with variants using Skimmer or seL4 kernels.
- QSOE is open source under Apache 2.0 and draws from his long experience, including earlier RadiOS project.
- He acknowledges using Claude LLM for assistance but has been working on these ideas for decades.