Am Mittwoch 29 Oktober 2008 12:16:58 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > If most systems just differ by the translators setup on them, people > > could even transfer their whole environment from one computer to > > another one without needing root access or more root interaction than > > creating a new user account. "I want my tools" -> "no problem, just > > setup your translators". > > This is an interesting option -- I actually thought in a similar > direction already. > > A precondition is that the same translators are available. This could be > incovenient, but shouldn't be a serious problem, as the user can always > compile them himself.
And with lisp now available as language for translators, a standard Hurd installation just needs to provide the lisp bindings, and every user can take his/her lisp translators along on a USB stick and use them without compiling. PyHurd goes into a similar direction. > We also need to be relatively independent of the host system to make > sure we really get the environment we want. This requires attaching at a > rather low level... Certainly possible, but again we need tools and > documentation. Yes - it isn't in the "we can already advertise this" cathegory :) > > Also it would be possible to just open an account for stuff like > > joining the "World Community Grid" allowing for easier sharing of CPU > > time. > > Not sure what you mean here... I mean: Currently to offer CPU time to some program, I need to install a program from them, and they can then do only what that proram allows them to - which leads to reinventing a processing environment instead of just using the existing OS. With the Hurd I could just create a user for them, give that user specific permissions (like "you're always lowest priority"), add the public ssh keys of the people I want to donate CPU cycles to, and they could just turn my computer into the environment they need for their specific computation, without compromising my system in any way. [EMAIL PROTECTED] done clean :) It's definitely far out, though. Best wishes, Arne PS: I'm somehow splitting the thread into subdiscussions here. -- My stuff: http://draketo.de - stories, songs, poems, programs and stuff :) -- Infinite Hands: http://infinite-hands.draketo.de - singing a part of the history of free software. -- Ein Würfel System: http://1w6.org - einfach saubere (Rollenspiel-) Regeln. -- PGP/GnuPG: http://draketo.de/inhalt/ich/pubkey.txt
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