On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 18:00, William Leslie <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:00 PM, arnuld uttre <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Well, It was sometime ago when Jonathan Shapiro started working on >> Coyotos and there was some discussion on mailing lists that Coyotos >> may be the next generation microkernel for Hurd. > > Even for some time before Coyotos was no longer actively developed, > it was effectively abandoned by the primary architects of the hurd, due > to its support of the so-called non-trivial confinement.
Yeah, it seems to always end up this way, hurd architects think that one important feature is missing or is done wrong, and then wait for another set of years. I'd like to see a GNU kernel with userspace drivers and maybe one or two more features, but I don't think it will come someday. Minix3 seems better for this task because it has one advantage: it works right now. I know, this is just a rant, but I just wanted to share what I'm thinking from my external point of view. Regards, -- Damien Thebault
