2009/9/16 Damien Thébault <[email protected]>: > 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.
It wasn't deemed a showstopper lightly, there was a lengthy, heated discussion, and the people who actually *do the work* decided that if fulfilling the goals of a truly free system as they perceived it required tailoring a kernel to their needs, that was what they would do. And that is what they did, three ng-hurd developers wrote kernels, one of which looks to me like it will be the basis for the ng-hurd. As Bas pointed out, there was no waiting. There are a handful of people that have worked tirelessly on the Hurd, some for more than a decade. But if more that wrote opinion pieces wrote code instead, it may move ahead much faster. > That's how I'd do things. Yes, I know, this is just like software engineering, > but usually it works in the end. > Sadly I don't have time to do this kind of things (right now, maybe someday). I think that's more or less what has been happening since this list was started, unless I'm missing something. Hope you get the opportunity soon :) William Leslie
