On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 07:12, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:39:47PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 18:41, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > > Also, Debian has the ability to use 4 kernels (NetBSD, FreeBSD, Hurd and > > > Linux) while SuSE and RedHat are Linux-Only. > > > > The sad truth is that Debian GNU/Hurd is currently further along than > > either BSD port. > > Unless you count kernel stability, on which the Hurd is sadly rather > short ... I think the BSD ports are accelerating faster. > > -- > Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk] I have to agree with Colin on this one - the BSD ports could well be officially shipping at the next release point if a few technological questions work out well over the next few months, and the resulting system seems sufficiently robust. The Hurd still apparently needs some important services in place and is awaiting a new microkernel that is supposed to solve some overhead and bottlenecks, iiuc. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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