Hurd experts, This is a long shot, but nothing ventured...
I'm a graduate student at UCSD and for my systems class I've been charged with the formidable task of coming up with an OS-related research topic for a paper due in mid-March. The topic I came up with is GNU's Mach/Hurd system. I've managed to get it installed on a variety of Intel machines, but I'm not really sure where to go from there. Rather than provide a general overview, the professor wants us to focus on and test a specific aspect of the system, which explains my earlier use of the word "formidable": while I'm very interested in systems programming, I've had a negligible amount of experience with it. Is there anything in Mach/Hurd amenable to a complete newbie? The Hurd's translators seem like an interesting topic, but I'm at a loss as to how to make a research paper out of them. Is there anything that I can do with the interface between Mach and Hurd? What about the efforts to port Hurd to L4? I've got a network of machines I can use to run experiments and about a month's worth of time left to produce something. I'm willing to put in a great deal of effort and money to make this project a success, but I'm seriously lacking direction. Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
