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.
The Hurd on Mach gives far more than Linux, FUSE only implements file-systems (and in a bad way!) in user-space. If you do something wrong with FUSE you crash the whole system at that, fun. 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. The claims that Mach is `very buggy' are all false, the only reason why it requires `alot of work' is simply because of hard to find bugs, but that isn't specfic to Mach. _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
