Re: Hurd [was:M$ licenses Unix]
On Wednesday 21 May 2003 15:53, Kent West wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
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> >On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 09:57:05PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
> >>IIRC, GNU will change to the hurd sometime in the future. This does
> >> not matter for debian, of course, ;-)
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> >No, but I have a feeling Debian will get *lots* of users, since
> > we're still the first and only Hurd distro...
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> At my last LUG meeting, the HURD was mentioned, and there was quite a
> bit of interest in playing with it. I've been reading up on it this
> week, and plan to install it on a box very shortly. Although from
> what I've read, I'm anxious to get to the L4 kernel (fast) and away
> from the Mach kernel (slow). I'm pretty sure that Mac OS/X uses the
> Mach kernel (but with a monolithic "kernel" on top instead of many
> servers the way that the Hurd, and only the Hurd, uses), so I guess
> the Mach kernel isn't _too_ slow.
Considering that RMS promotes GNU free software applications over their
non-GNU free software equivalents (Gnome versus KDE comes to mind), it
will be interesting to see the GNU project and FSF part ways with
Linux.
>From a technology point of view, Hurd with the idea of a true
Microkernel, is exciting, . But it certainly is lacking interest these
days, and is still in the alpha stage. Nowadays hundereds of developers
are either individually, or on behalf of companies like SuSE, RedHat,
SGI, IBM, HP ... are working on the kernel. I can't see Hurd catching
up with Linux, considering that the Linux kernel is progressing with
such a rapid pace. If things continue like this, then IMHO Linux 2.8
might even catch up with Solaris.
As much as I like RMS and his ideas, I beleive that when in 1995-96 it
became apparent that Linux was portable, FSF should have stopped the
development of Hurd.
Just my $0.02
Cheers
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