i know i have already posted 2 long-emails & i still think i need to post this one:
"True, linux is monolithic, and I agree that microkernels are nicer. With a less argumentative subject, I'd probably have agreed with most of what you said. From a theoretical (and aesthetical) standpoint linux looses. If the GNU kernel had been ready last spring, I'd not have bothered to even start my project: the fact is that it wasn't and still isn't. Linux wins heavily on points of being available now." -- Linus Torvalds [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/appa.html] today, i spent whole day searching the archives of mailing lists & i came across "The Mercury Project" and "House": http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/mercury/index.html http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~hallgren/ICFP2005/ i think i know just 0.1% of OS development :-( but i am ready for hard work. i also read a lot about MINIX3. folks *out* there really doing lots of work to achieve their goals but i agree we here, also have to support our families, like me and that eats lots of time & energy & we get little of both to focus on HURD, it is really sad but truth of life. i get only a few replies from folks here and i have not seen "Marcus" and "Neal" here. i wish they could comment. i think HURD can be done. researchers in diffeent parts of the world are doing research & showing results, +ve and -ve both. if they can do from scratch, we can do it (in fact GNU is already ahead as we have written a large number of high-quality softwares) so i propose, again, the "construction of our own micrkernel for HURD" (i will not post any proposal after this, i know if anybody is interested in giving a reply he will reply. BTW, i also do not like & it does not make sense for posting these things again and again or more than 2 times ) thanks anyway -- arnuld http://arnuld.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
