Hi. Take my response with a grain of salt, I'm not a Hurd developer, although I used a pure GNU machine for development for ~5 years and always wanted to work on it. So, I could completely misrepresent how the Hurd hackers feel about the direction of the project.
On 19 April 2013 07:36, rob fon <[email protected]> wrote: > why mailing list so dead? People are off solving other problems. Problems in distributed computing, problems in security, and problems in usability; while hurd-ng suggested at several ways to solve many such problems, the solutions that grew (often somewhat organically) into those spaces gradually drew attention toward them. > is there still hope? Motivating system-level solutions to these problems is not difficult in a vacuum, but I guess people are busy doing other things. There are people doing research or attempting to implement real operating systems (I guess TUD and HelenOS are still under active development as examples), and The Hurd continues to make progress in Debian atop the GNU Mach kernel. A few committed developers - and lets face it, a few begins with one - could probably get a usable GNU/Hurd system on top of a kernel like L4 in a few years. Samuel and Thomas could probably do it on their own if they had a sufficient wage. > why is there more developement on mach when other microkernels have proven > better? Mostly because, in an unusual cycle, choice of kernel doesn't matter that much when developing the set of servers. GNUMach is useful because it currently has semi-decent driver support. > note: this is my first mailing list subscription yay! I think it was probably mine too, in 2006/2007! Don't forget to always check who you are replying to. Current gmail seems to do the wrong thing. The to: address (or cc:) should be l4-hurd; if you are using the web UI, you can get it there by selecting "<<= reply to all" in the drop-down at the top of the compose box. -- William Leslie
