No, not at all. I care about the Hurd, or else I would not be writing this
message (and the long thread that preceded this discussing the
possibilities). I expect that everyone in this list cares about the Hurd
also, or else they would not discuss it, and would not work on it.
The point is that, more or less, the Hurd is a project with a basis in
technical superiority over existing products. That, in and of itself, will
not "sell" many users. It has sold very few users right now (i.e. little
momentum). To gain a little more momentum, such as to bring attention to it
from technical and non-technical people, there needs to be some point of
focus that relates to the more. A "modular microkernel platform" doesn't
help them do their job, but "fastest Apache performance" might, for example.
That is one of many foci and visions and the Hurd can be optimized for one
or more of these. Personally, I think it would be cool if the Hurd is
optimized for a desktop platform and for media processing, but many others
have other wishes and ideas for what they can do with it. But the common
thing is that we all have an idea or two, that is use-oriented, and it will
do us good to elaborate and discuss them. The discussions will likely also
be more relevant to others and attract interest, both technical and
non-technical.
Gerald.
At 10:50 AM 4/11/00 -0400, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
>Gerald Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The same is not true of the Hurd. There is hardly any momentum at all.
> > There are only a handful of people engaged in it. If a building collapsed
> > on them, I'm uncertain how many people have enough interest to take
> over as
> > the lead, and be able to devote the time and have the expertise to justify
> > their position as the lead. If that building collapsed, and no one here
> > said anything, would anyone notice?
>
>Maybe not. So? Does that mean that those handful of people should
>just not bother? That may be true, but this isn't the list for
>telling people reasons not to care about the Hurd.
>
>Thomas
