Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
It's kind of a curious group. I'm still confused quite a bit. I'll be the first to admit that I know very little about OS design (which is one of the reasons I'm tryin to get involved in the Hurd in the first place. But, they are working off of a kernel that seems to get little to no development while waiting for L4. Which from outside eyes almost seems to be being developed in a vacuum? The Cathedral?? :-)I'm hoping that between questions you ask and ideas you spark, maybe it is just one or two outstanding epiphanies (not the new browser being developed on gecko) that break the logjam on the Hurd and prove my fears wrong about its current condition. I wonder if they do need outside eyes and some fresh curiosity to inspire the next big step.
I was really taken aback the other day when Marcus said in one of his e-mails that he rarely even runs the Hurd any more, or something to that effect... Again, from outside eyes, I got the impression that he was kind of the authority on the thing??
*boy I hope I don't get even more blacklisted now..* :-) -- Barry deFreese Debian 3.0r1 "Woody" Registered Linux "Newbie" #302256 - Debian Developer Wannabe "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." Rich Cook.