> Once again, HURD is a kernel not an OS. Developing a media OS would
> be easier with the HURD kernel than with a monolithic kernel (becuase
> developing just about anything is a whole bunch easier with a
> microkernel) but you'd have to do a whole bunch of other stuff as
> well.
>
> For example: a new windowing system (probably) certainly tou would
> need to build the tools and the interfaces for the tools on top of the
> kernel.
Read again my explanations. You will notice that what I'm talking about
are kernel services that support media applications. Not windowing systems
or image compression libraries or vocoders or codecs or any of a number of
different tools.