The last thing I heard of the L4 port was that they had recently been able to load an executable without a kernel panic. Not really the progress you'd hope for (esp. considering that there are a bunch of robust OSs based upon L4, such as L4Linux & TUD:OS).
The Wikipedia article says that there was further discussion as to wether or not they should switch to the later L4 spec, or the Coyotos kernel. The 0.2 Hurd/Mach does have some nice live CDs out there currently, although they aren't of much use considering Hurd's 'feature set'. On 2/8/07, Harri Haataja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 05:52:49PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > i don't see how you can blame hurd's vaporware status > on switching from mach to l4. that happened quite reciently. > they were coding for hurd in 1990. Adding to the handwaving: Generally problems in hurd seem to be blamed on the kernel. They say mach just isn't any good so that didn't work out. I don't know if the l4 thing got anywhere and it seems that at least part of the crowd (hurd-ng) is now arguing about profound ideas at the moment without any code trying to figure out how to start a new(?) system without having ever ro start over again. (<-- that's all just hand-waving, though. ianahd) If I got the picture, there seems to be one running Hurd (http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/) and they're not happy with Mach and aren't continuing. Then there's a number of groups looking for the alternative. Maybe that's progress, but if the running mach version doesn't go forward and no new version reaches a running state, the usable Hurd will seem to be stuck in that state. -- <Murgatroyd> You know you've been playing Nethack too much when... <Murgatroyd> You look both ways down the corridor, start to sweat... then realise you're looking at your EMail address.
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