It sounds like you want to see a production unix style system
using the mach kernel. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that
there is a version of linux ported to Mac that runs a mach kernel?
David DeTinne
> Wait a moment .... what has Hurd already done? The microkernel isn't a
> ground-up approach (mach 4), the device drivers are stolen from Linux,
> most of the commands are adopted from UNIX. This whole thing is about
> taking the bits that make sense, and glueing them together into
> something which will ultimately be better (Hurd). I don't think there
> is anything intrinsically wrong with this process, and could be a win.
>
> I'm not a fan of giving Apple free revenue for an Intel port ....
> rather, I was pointing out that we could form a mutual benefit here by
> porting to a common microkernel and leveraging the fact that they
> already have this stuff working on the PPC ... an almost for-free port
> to PPC with a whole suite of device drivers known to work on old/new
> PPC based macs (and possibly be really cool by co-existing with
> Darwin).
>
> I'm not in the guts of hurd yet, but from what I've been reading that
> idea may be very difficult to realize and subject to license
> restrictions .... both of which make it hard to justify such a move.
>
> -- jim
>
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