On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 07:02:51PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > there is a long thread "linux vs hurd" on the newsgroup > fr.comp.os.linux.debats. As I do not speak french, could someone who does > glance over it and see if any interesting points are raised. Also check for > inaccuracies etc.
I just read most of it using deja.com (pruning the subthreads spanned by those posts which were offtopic). Here is a summary. Starting point is message 537926587 on deja.com: Encolpe Hugues Ascylte DEGOUTE asks for the readers' opinions on the Hurd ``kernel'' and whether they think Linux 2.4 development should be abandoned in favor of trying to obtain a stable version of the Hurd. He explains that he would like to write an article in the bulletin of the ALDIL association (http://www.aldil.linux.eu.org/). Message 537967819, Hugues Marilleau points out that Hurd is not a kernel and makes fun of the suggestion to stop developing Linux. In message 538205151, News Claude explains that the Hurd is a collection of servers running over Mach, and says that the an article in issue number 8 of LinuxMag explains it all, and that this article is to be continued. In message 539216982, Hugues Marilleau points out that a micro-kernel (sic) can hardly be as fast as a monolithic kernel. In message 539292309, Laurent FAVART points out that the difference in speed might not be all that important, and that microkernels have some other advantages that monolithic kernels can never have, and he gives the URL of the Mach home page. In message 541216245, Jerome Kalifa claims that Mach has been a failure all the way (NeXtStep, MkLinux being replaced by classical Linux and, soon, MacOS); he claims that ``RMS himself did admit that they made a mistake in choosing to host Hurd on Mach because it is too complex and not technically manageable''. In 541233403, Laurent FAVART points out that the failure of Mach may not be the failure of microkernels altogether, and mentions the existence of ``exokernels''. In message 539477908, Guylhem Aznar compares Hurd with NT2000 and calls them vaporware. This led to a subthread of various sarcasms. In 540609706, Thierry Pinelli claims that Grub is unable to boot the FreeBSD ELF kernels. Essentially nothing very precise was ever said. But I did not see any blatant inaccuracies either. A pointer to the Hurd page was given, but that is about the extent of the technical part of the discussion. > There was also a Hurd article in the French Linux magazine. Can someone find > out who was interviewed (they wanted an interview with me, but I never got an > answer to my reply, so I think they found someone more interesting :) and > summarize the article for us? I'll try to see if I can find this. -- David A. Madore ([EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/ )
