As far as advantages, most of them should be called 'potential' advantages and are outlined quite well in some of the documents referred to by some other replies. It's a remarkably interesting project, but (besides the odd story I've heard to run a web server just to show it can be done) it's not very useful yet. It also likely wont be useful for quite a while. Debian GNU/Hurd and vanilla GNU/Hurd are two different things. The former uses Debian packages and the latter is usually a 'from-scratch' environment (I'm told most developers run vmware from-scratch environments unless their efforts focus exclusively on the Debian GNU/Hurd OS). The biggest thing that seems to be holding up development has been the realization by key members of the project that the Mach kernel has fundamental flaws that do not support the long term goals of the Hurd. There was some work done to get Hurd to work with the L4 kernel but recently the commitment to L4 has been damaged and the last time I checked (roughly a month ago) they had not committed to a new kernel to port to yet. The #hurd channel on irc.debian.org is relatively active and I'm sure can answer whatever question you can come up with. -Peter On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 04:39:20PM +0000, debian wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 02:25:45PM +0000, John Halton wrote: > > > GNU/Hurd. There is a lot of work to do before we can make a release." > > But, what are its advantages of it over the Debian we know now and > love so well ? > > Joe > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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