>>>>> Oliver Thuns writes: OT> What a the pros and cons between Debian/Hurd and Debian/Linux
Currently, GNU/Hurd is not as useful as GNU/Linux. Server applications vs. multimedia applications do not matter nearly as much as whether your application is single-threaded and monolithic, or multithreaded and modular. When the Hurd is more stable, it will be much more efficient for threaded, CORBA-based applications because of Mach's lightweight threading and message-passing facilities. This will require a free IDL translator that uses Mach RPC, though, which to my knowledge does not exist (yet). Also, every Hurd server is roughly equivalent to a CORBA object, and so it would be possible to eventually eliminate a lot of glibc glue code from GNOME, Berlin, etc, and just use Hurd interface calls directly. The potential is for a faster, more modular system. However, software that uses only the standard Unix glibc calls will always run slower than that which takes advantage of the Hurd's architecture. -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)
