On 20 May 2002 10:44:46 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Has anyone taken a look at the HURD? I read about it in the Debian >> weekly news all the time. It's starting to get close to becoming a >> Debian distribution offering. (Unstable of course) >> >> Its macro-kernel based so it might shrink much better than Linux. As >> a general purpose OS its still too unstable but it might work as a >> glorified bootloader. > >Possibly. HURD is currently using the Mach kernel which is a modified >BSD kernel. It may be smaller, if you compile things out but that was >never a space it really played in. Mach has always been known as a >micro kernel in design but not in bytes.
Yeah, I was thinking that perhaps you could compile out most of the stuff to keep it nice and small. Perhaps its really not that granular though. That's 2.4's problem right? That there's several large items that you can't just compile out? -- Richard A. Smith Bitworks, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 479.846.5777 x104 Sr. Design Engineer http://www.bitworks.com
