[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From: Tommy Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On a bit of a tangent, how ready is the Hurd to replace the Linux kernel? > > I am not one of the people testing it. RMS is still running Debian on his > laptop :-) > > What I would hope is that the HURD would support the 86open standard > (essentially GNU LIBC with a cleaner substitute for ioctl()), and that > a large number of Debian binary packages would run on all 86open platforms, > including SCO and so on. We're going to have to get a lot farther with 86open > before that happens. >
As I read more and more about Hurd.. I still can't stop thinking "WHY?".. in a couple hundred more revisions.. the Linux kernel may well come close to being a microkernel. What are the clear cut benefits? (Just a few simple lines please.. no dissertations.. I'd as a professor of computer science for that...) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .