On Tue, 09 May 2000 07:56:48 Joe Tennies wrote:
> I am a 3rd year Computer Science/ Software Engineering student at the
> University of Wisconsin-Platteville. I am in an Operating Systems course in
> which I have to write a paper about an operating system, and I chose
> GNU/Hurd. I was wondering if you could either point me towards technical
> information or show me the information I need I'd very much appreciate it.
> I will then send the paper to this list and place it under the GPL.
You will find the most information from the standard gnu site
www.gnu.org/software/hurd
Of course you must not neglect the links to other pages, or you will
miss out
stuff. (The Debian link page might help you, go from
http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd).
> process management
Those are tasks and threads in GNU Mach, and the proc server in the
Hurd.
> storage management
Those are the Hurdlibraries, libstore, libdiskfs, libtrivfs
and servers, ext2fs, ufs, isofs, ...
> processor management
GNU Mach has some stuff for distributed systems and SMP, none of it
currently working.
> auxiliary storage management
Whatever this means.
> performance
If you ask about speed, pretty bad. However, if you ask about the
performance
of design, it's good. I was able to implement a new file system server
within days.
> networks and security"
Mostly POSIX.
> Also, I need an article from a printed journal after 1/98. If you know of
> one, that would be very useful as well.
This might be hard to achieve. Well, I wrote one in the German freeX
magazine
(appeared in print in march, I think). But it is german, of course.
There are articles in the french linux magazine as well.
I don't know if there are recent articles on the Hurd in UK, US or
Australika (or other english speaking countries). Neither of these
articles is very scientific, anyway.
Thanks,
Marcus
