begin quoting Martin Franco as of Fri, May 23, 2008 at 09:42:32AM -0700: > I've read that hurd is better designed than linux,
Which is not the same thing as saying that hurd has a good design. One can argue that Linux was not so much designed as assembled; but that's a tad misleading. > but slower and way > behind in resources, drivers, and stability. There is work on a port to ...e.g., in all the things that matter. > the L4 microkernel which I think would speed it up, but years of > optimization would be needed to make it competitive, I think. > > Does anyone think hurd might eventual become better than the linux or bsd > kernels? I'm considering contributing to its development, running it > inside a virtual machine at least until it supports all of my hardware. I'd bet on Minix or Plan9 first. But that's just me. -- I can has Multics? Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
