On Thursday 24 May 2001 18:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Secondly, I have read a few mail on that list about the drivers in the > GNUmach kernel. I think one of the interests of The Hurd is its modularity. > The following idea might have been already thought of or considered, so > please don't shoot me straight away: would it be possible to implement each > single driver as a server in kernel space? One of the advantage of The Hurd > over monolithic kernel is the implementation of functionality like > filesystem as a server is user-space, and I was wondering if it would be > possible to reuse that philosophy for the kernel drivers. Any thought? > > Thirdly, I walked through the mailing list last night and I still can't > understand which kernel I should use: it seems that The Hurd is fairly easy > to install using GNUmach but that all the development is happening on > OSKit-mach. What is the exact status? What should I use if I want to do > some development? > > Thank you very much for your time and keep up the good work. I think The > Hurd is a great idea and that the work you are all doing the > FANTASTIC...... > > Cheers. > Bertrand.
Hi, I never saw an answer to Bertrand's two questions concerning hurd. Perhaps they were just sent to him or maybe I'm just impatient (please forgive me if this is so) but I never saw an answer to these questions and I would be interested in the answers myself. Thanks, Jonathan Hunt -- Jonathan Hunt (The Real Jonathan Hunt) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Jim Elliot
