Like I said, though, this is going to take more widespread consensus to move forward with this idea.
Richard: I realize that this is a sensitive issue and controversial, but I was wondering if we could get your opinion on it. There seems to be a lot of support for this idea from the posting on here and other threads, but it would probably take your endorsement for anything to happen. Michael Heath On 9/9/07, Sprink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I for one still think creating the initial versions of the GNU OS using > solely the Linux kernel would be a great start. Once the system is stable > enough to stand side to side with other GNU/Linux distributions, we could > start the development process of migrating any Hurd specific software to the > GNU OS which would be using Linux. I don't know a whole heap about the > technical details of the Hurd OS, but I assume there are still plenty of > userspace applications/features (any hurd specific IPC stuff) that could > easily be integrated into the distribution without actually having a > hurd/mach kernel present at the time (I could be wrong). As for the actual > kernel transition itself, from Linux to the hurd, I don't think it would be > too difficult of work to create a binary compatibility layer to help with > this transition. I think it would mostly be more tedious work than actual > difficult problem solving work. > Of course this would all take plenty of time, but just stepping back and > looking at the big picture of the entire process, I don't see any reasons > not to take this path for the development of the Hurd/GNU OS. > > Sorry for my terminology, I know it's probably not very accurate. >
