Re: [OT] Hurd, was Re: The LSB and packages
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 06:17:27PM -0300, Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann writes:
> > Well, at least the Debian GNU/Hurd project will use dpkg for now (as soon as
> > I or somebody else get to compile this beast on the Hurd :), so it may well
> > be that the GNU project will base its distribution on dpkg, too.
>
> While we're talking about the Hurd, am I right to think it is going to be
> binary compatible with Debian GNU/Linux, as long as both use glibc (on the
> same platform, of course)?
Well, this issue doesn't belong on this list, really. There is the
debian-hurd list, but it does not really belong there, too. Maybe there is
no list in the world where it does belong to yet, so I'll answer you here
quickly.
At the moment, the hurd does not emulate the Linux syscalls. Other programs,
that don't use syscalls, can be compiled for the Hurd. Currently, no binary
compatibility is realized, and it is not the primary goal of the Hurd
developers, IIRC. However, binary compatibility is or will be easy to
implement, so everyone who wants to do something about it is welcome to
help.
As a micro kernel, the Hurd should be an ideal os for emulation (dosemu,
wine etc).
> I'm curious about the Hurd, yet I can't find much info in the FSF pages. I had
> the impression development had sort of stopped as Linux was being ported to
> more and more architectures (putting the whole "microkernel argument" to
> rest).
Development is still going on, and people gather together at debian-hurd for
a Hurd binary distribution based on Debian. At the moment, we work on the
bootstrapping process. The Hurd will be quite different to Linux in some
respects, so it is still an interesting project on its own.
And, no, it is not going to kill Linux (anytime soon anyway). Flames are
kindly forwarded to /dev/null. At the moment, neither performance nor
stability is appealing.
Marcus
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