On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:26:45PM -0700, David Brown wrote: > HURD has never been in a state where it was very useful for anything, other > than use by people who want to poke around with HURD. I'm not sure it is > every very good at that.
Such a shame. I've always wondered if RMS would have more glory today if Minix or a BSD were available to him in 80s with an acceptable license. Even after the AT&T mess was done, seems he could have *still* taken the BSD source, wrapped it with his GNU tools and called *that* the GNU system. Hell, he could fork FreeBSD and do that *today*. Then we'd finally have a polished GNU system. > L4 definitely takes a different approach. I think Mach didn't end up being > a micro-enough of a micro-kernel. Being micro is the big draw of a microkernel to me. L4 looks appealing now. cs -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
