Interview with Hurd developer Neal Walfield
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Interview with Hurd developer Neal Walfield press@debian.org
November 13th, 2001
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Interview with Hurd developer Neal Walfield
Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap spoke with Neal Walfield from the
GNU/Hurd development team who is also a Debian developer working on
the Hurd port.
>From the interview:
"The Hurd is a radical departure from many UNIX concepts. It is a
unique and interesting approach to solving many of the problems
found in current operating systems. While it's not yet production
grade, it is evolved enough to be quite usable.
The Hurd is a set of servers that provide similar interfaces to
those found in traditional Unix-like kernels. The servers, each
designed to do one task or manage one aspect of the system, run in
user space thereby isolating them from both the kernel and each
other. This offers more power and flexibility to both the
administrator and the user and, in doing so, increases system
security."
Full article: <http://kerneltrap.com/article.php?sid=375>
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