[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 at 21:22, Federico Sevilla III wrote: >> The UNIX model (and it seems everyone else?) follows a very central >> model of administration, and I wonder if this will change in the near >> future. Hmm ... :( > >Eric Pareja just reminded me on IRC: the Hurd. There is hope for the >computing segment of humankind. :) That would take a long time (not hopefully). It was because the Hurd wasn't available back then in 1991 that made Linus start Linux (he wouldn't otherwise - he was counting on a free version of BSD then...). Fortunately that wasn't the case. Ideas that the FSF want to implement on the Hurd are revolutionary that time (even now) with regards to operating system concepts. The idea of fine-grained security is already in practice (via access control lists), but the notion of not needing to reboot after you installed a freshly compiled kernel (utilizing further the design of the Mach microkernel) is already a challenge to implement (and if they somehow achieve this - which might need special hardware, I think, to make it's implementation easier) and will make many a developer think - how do we do that? And still follow the UNIX API and it's simplicity? Paolo Falcone __________________________________ www.edsamail.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
