---------------------------------------- > Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 12:47:26 -0700 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: kplug-lpsg@kernel-panic.org > Subject: Re: gnu hurd > > On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 01:28:37PM -0500, Gabriel Sechan wrote: >> They've been working on hurd for over a decade, without anything usable. >> For a long time, and possibly still, hard drives over a few GB were not >> supported because they memory mapped the entire hard drive and any hard >> drive larger than main memory was unusable. With poor decision making like >> that, I have no faith whatsoever in hurd ever reaching the level of >> usability, much less being good. > > There is an install disk and a live cd, and hurd is using the linux 2.4 > drivers. I've read that someone got a full kde running on it. > > would the hard drive address space problem be in hurd or mach? All I know > about L4 at this point is that it is much more modern, so I wouldnt expect > the hurd/l4 system would have that problem. > No clue. I know why they couldn't support it (mem mapping the drive), but not wether it was hurd or the microkernel. I would expect it to be in hurd though- the microkernel is more of a message passing framework, I would have expected hurd to do anything like disk access. I could be wrong though.
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