Paul Serice wrote: > > Wintermute wrote: > > > > [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...) > > There is a grand old discussion archived on KDE's web site at > http://www.kde.org/food/linux_is_obsolete.html >
That's the one with Linus and the guy who created Minix right? I think I read through that old news archive about 2 years ago.. it came included on the Slackware CD release I had at the time. Cute.. funny.. but it didn't really answer any of the questions as to WHY. Is there a speed increase? Is there a security increase? Stability? Power? What? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .