Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 16:00:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: Pontus Lidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello, Are there any resources like mailing-list archives etc. that reflect the past design discussions of the GNU/Hurd team? I'm trying to get into Hurd a bit, but reading the source from the top down is pretty time-consuming. debian-hurd is archived by the Debian project. It's only a few pages down from http://www.debian.org. Some discussion has taken place on the help-hurd and bug-hurd mailing lists. I belive they are archived by the FSF, but AFAIK there is no web interface for browsing them. Try sending a message with `help' on the subject list to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and/or [EMAIL PROTECTED] to learn about how to get messages from the archives by e-mail. However, I'm not sure if this will work. These are some things that caught my interest: * The phasing out of MiG, is there some replacement that is considered? Utah's Flick? Will MiG be phased out from the Hurd source, or from GNUMach development in general? MiG has it's shortcomings, but there are no concrete plans to replace it with something else. I guess Utah's flick would be a candidate, but this really depends on other things such has moving to other microkernels. * The writing of libmom, are there any particular reasons to not use Mach in the future? libmom has been dropped. The idea is to start making the Hurd less dependent on Mach after the next release. Reasons for moving away from Mach include: * Mach is aging and it shows. It doesn't take advantage of modern hardware. * Mach isn't the fastest microkernel that's around. Mark
