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I was initially confused - I thought this was going to be an OS implemented in Lua, but it's a Linux distribution which has special sandboxing for Lua: http://luaos.net/docs/manual.php#4.

I've poked around a decent amount of the site, and I'm still not clear on what this is a solution to.

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Special Sandboxing that, I think, is implemented in Java. So this is an OS in the sense that it only depends on having a JVM and Lua interpreter installed.

Not that this is a great metric (especially when the source languages are taken into account), but here are the LOC counts in the project:

    $ find . -name '*.java' | xargs cat | wc -l
    28877
    $ find . -name '*.lua' | xargs cat | wc -l
    6826
    $ find . -name '*.slua' | xargs cat | wc -l
    1725

Agreed, the title lead me to believe that the OS is the Lunatik idea [1] taken much further.

[1] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2010/10/05/msg008900....

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