Hi, Just out of interest, I was browsing(*) the HURD website and stumbled upon this page http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-paper.html concerning the basic design decisions and extrapolations to potential exploitation of its features. The idea of file system translators for instance is very similar to Hans Reiser's ideas about modern file system(s needs) as explained in http://www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html I think the HURD could be the natural (test)platform to implement such ideas instead of having new layers/file system reorganisations crammed in Linux for the future releases of the ReiserFS. This could be a new incentive for the HURD project if this is where (database or info retrieval) computing is heading in the future. (It might be the wrong impression, but the HURD project seems not to catch on as fast as could be hoped for, whatever development activity is quietly going on.)
Just an idea, (not that I think you people didn't know about it already :-))) Guy Bormann P.S.:(*)Well, not really pointless browsing. I was looking for an official stance of the FSF on Miguel de Icaza's "Mono story" concerning the future of the GNOME (since it carries the GNU acronym in its own acronym). However, I got distracted when looking for the GNOME-link :-))) _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
