mksawk
Mortice Kern Awk, from Illumos, ported to Linux
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GITHUB · launched Sep 24, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 88%) · 0 views
Niche: scripting and execution runtimes · 56 launches, 4 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Porting an old OS-specific Unix utility (Mortice Kern Awk from Illumos) to Linux requires deep knowledge of POSIX standards, Illumos/Solaris libc differences, and legacy C compiler toolchains.
What it would actually take: Requires C systems programming expertise to audit and replace Illumos-specific system calls, header dependencies, and libc quirks with standard glibc/musl implementations. The developer must debug subtle macro definitions, regex engine internals, and compiler idiosyncrasies across distinct Unix lineage toolchains.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 998 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #867 of 999 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 322 days after the earliest competitor.
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- RealXV6 · hn · 2026-01-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Kern · hn · 2026-08-24 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 298 bytes · hn · 2026-04-07 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- kernwatch · github · 2026-09-11 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Kernarium · github · 2026-11-07 · 321 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- eggshell · github · 2026-11-03 · 103 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Zero deps C++ ASR binary for Linux (0MB idle RAM, no daemons, Unix way) · hn · 2026-06-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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