Olivier Galibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You're leaving in dream land here. Modern linux, and I have > first-hand experience with failures there, usually won't crash on > driver/fs problems if the problem is recoverable.
Drivers for real hardware will require some privileges on the hurd too, at least as long as it's possible for a bad driver to fry the hardware it's driving. But the fs comparison is wrong. A random user on a random linux system simply won't be running any filesystems of his own. And things that aren't running will obviously not crash the entire system. Hence no crashes. So what? The point of the Hurd is make file systems (as well as some other things that traditionally live in kernel land) fun and *easy* for ordinary users to run, install and hack. If you don't find that interesting, well, then the Hurd is most likely not for you. You're better off with with a traditional free unix like GNU/Linux or freebsd. Use your time wisely. Regards, /Niels _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
