> And as Olaf pointed out, nobody, not even Marcus, knows what > Hurd-NG will look like, there is no goal, not even an idea behind > it.
I don't think this is true. The documents I found here[0] and here[1] gave me a lot of information about the direction of Hurd-NG. [0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/l4-hurd/2007-01/msg00007.html [1] http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/hurd/ng/philosophy/ Well, these documents are old, and this is what http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/hurd/ng/ says in the first paragraphs: | There is an effort to create a completely new system design (for now | called ngHurd, or Hurd-ng or HurdNG), which originated from the | Hurd/L4 port. | The original Hurd/L4, which was meant to be mostly a direct port of | the existing Hurd design to a new microkernel, has been abandoned by | it's main developers, because some technical issues with the L4 | Pistachio kernel turned out to be very fundamental. While | reeveluating the design (and upcoming new L4 variants), the | developers picked up some new ideas, and decided that now they | rather want to work on a completely different design, which combines | some of the original Hurd ideas with concepts from Jonathan | Shapiro's high security EROS and Coyotos systems. I guess some sorting out what HurdNG actually is needs to be done...
