Title A tale of four kernels URL http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1368140 Year 2008 Citations 64 Versions 17 Cluster ID 13014561001404893111 Citations list http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=13014561001404893111&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en Versions list http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=13014561001404893111&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 Excerpt Abstract The FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, Solaris, and Windows operating systems have kernels that provide comparable facilities. Interestingly, their code bases share almost no common parts, while their development processes vary dramatically. We analyze the source code of