On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 21:32 +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > - persistence > > We haven't decided so far. A persistent system has many advantages. > It is something which can also be done partly, for example by giving > the user a persistent session, while having a non-persistent core. At > this moment I think we will want a fully persistent system, but I'm > not sure at all about this.
Our experience suggests that persistence should be all-inclusive, and that only the kernel and drivers should be omitted from the persistence contract. > - real time > > So far, the Hurd isn't planned to be a real time operating system. > That is, it doesn't support real time applications. If we can be real > time, it would be nice, but it isn't a priority. Of course we do want > time-critical applications such as audio and video players and > cd-burners to run fluently when the system isn't under heavy load. > (in other words: we don't want to do worse than GNU/Linux.) If you want audio and video, you want real time. Speaking only for myself (and possibly for Marcus): some time in the future I would like to throw Windows out of my home recording studio. Before I can do that, I need an open source platform with really good real-time support and a bunch of recording studio software. shap _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
