On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:18:53 -0400, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
In my opinion, the Hurd project is coming to a cusp, and it faces a
choice between two options:
1. Hurd can continue to pursue the goals for the GNU OS that were set
out in 1983. This is a fine thing to do, but in my opinion this is
basically an obsolete activity.
2. Hurd can try to establish a forward looking vision that makes sense
from where we stand now in 2005.
The current Hurd/Mach does not give users much over Linux, since the
goal to have user-space file systems is now also fulfilled in Linux
with FUSE, which is probably less buggy, and has more interested
developers.
If, additionally, user-space drivers are a goal, then
* Hurd/Mach needs to be hacked to support that, or
* the Hurd/L4 port needs to be completed, or
* maybe one could write a Linux module for that purpose, or
* a Hurd/successor(EROS) port is attempted.
I do not know how much work each of these would take. Mach is very
buggy, it requires a lot of work already because of that, Hurd/L4 is
nowhere near finished (especially the device driver framework), and as
for an effort of user-space devices for Linux (other than USB drivers),
I don't know.
I do not see anyone willing to do one of the first three, so I say
let's instead try to help the people going for the last one.
Thanks,
Martin
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