Sam Couter wrote: >The Hurd is just a kernel (well, a microkernel and a bunch of servers >that offer services normally provided by more traditional kernels). >GNOME runs on the Hurd and it's about the same as GNOME on Linux or >FreeBSD or any one of a bunch of free operating systems. I don't know if >KDE runs on the Hurd yet, but when it does, it'll be just like running >KDE on Linux or FreeBSD or any one of a bunch of free operating systems.
QuantumG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See, this is flat out wrong. No, what I said is correct. The kernel is largely irrelevant to the end-user experience. > We've know since BeOS that a microkernel > makes for a better desktop operating system. Who's "we"? I'm no kernel expert, so what I say here is probably worth exactly what you paid for it, but... While I happen to agree with you that a microkernel seems like the best (most secure, stable, flexible and extensible) possible architecture for a system to have (barring deadbrained hardware architectures like x86), whether you're on a microkernel or monolithic system makes very little difference to the end-user experience. GNOME and KDE still look and behave like GNOME and KDE whether you're on Linux, one of the BSDs or the Hurd. > That is not to say that we should just throw Linux away. In fact, I > advocate the opposite. We need to refocus work on the Linux kernel and > step up the incremental migration of services out of the kernel. Some crazy loon whacked the Linux kernel and ORBit (a C library that implements the CORBA specs) together a few years ago. The extrapolation of such trends leads to drivers in user space on a physically seperate machine, anywhere on the planet, with any hardware architecture, and implemented in any language that has CORBA support. Now that is something I find interesting, if not immediately useful. -- Sam "Eddie" Couter | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Developer | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP fingerprint: A46B 9BB5 3148 7BEA 1F05 5BD5 8530 03AE DE89 C75C
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