why don't the hurd hackers take some short cuts and turn the gnu kernel to a monolithic kernel and cut some corners like Linux instead of trying to create the perfect kernel which will never reach a highly usable status.
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:12 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 07:19:04PM -0600, Oz wrote: > >> yea sorry i don't know much but from the info i got on the mailing >> lists, i believe viengoos and the entire gnu/hurd is in a corpse >> status > > Viengoos is in a hibernation status. The Hurd is still active. (Though > admittedly at a slow pace.) > >> and i think work on linux libre has become the gnu kernel please >> correct me if i am wrong. > > Well, Linux is not a GNU project. It is what usually gets used in > GNU-based systems -- but other options are possible (see GNU/kFreeBSD), > and I don't think Linux is any more official in this role than others. > > The Hurd is still the actual GNU kernel -- though it's not much of a > secret that nobody considers it an important project nowadays... Just an > interesting one :-) > > -antrik- > >
