Re: Hurd queries
On Tuesday 03 April 2001 23:33, Bob Ham wrote:
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> Also, having a graphics driver is not the same as replacing X. You could
> run an X server that uses a Hurd graphics translator. This is kind of
> thing KGI/fb with the fb X server does. However, there is also the
> Berlin project whose aim *is* to replace X. Berlin seems to me to be a
> better choice for a GUI for GNU than X. I say this as everybody knows X
> is a *big* beast with lots of issues, both technical and otherwise (X
> license stuff.) Combined with the suitablity of the Hurd for a KGI style
> graphics system and Berlin's use of GGI (and hence KGI), this seems to
> me to be a very powerful arguement.
>
I sounded out the Berlin dev list about HURD compatibility a few weeks ago
and got this:
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> As far as I can see, HURD (gnumach) lacks some fundamental things
> berlin needs (in particular pthreads - it only has cthreads IIRC).
well, if Prague's Thread classes could be implemented with cthreads that would
already do it.
> You would probably have to implement a lot of other things to get
> Berlin running on HURD (of course, feel free to do that, I'm sure the
> HURD folks will be grateful :).
right. An ORB and a Console API would be needed, just to begin with. Then
Prague needs to be ported. But that's basically all :)
All the system dependencies of berlin are encapsulated within these three
modules.
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