On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:20:07PM -0700, David Brown wrote: > HURD lost it's momentum when Linux came out. Suddenly there was no need > for it. Whereas before people might want to run it, just because it was > the only free thing there was. Once Linux came on the scene, followed by > various BSDs, HURD had to do something quite different to be useful.
Yes but why didn't Linux kill off the open source *BSDs as well? Your argument would imply they should have tapered off too. > Also, Mach is far from small or simple. Hmmm...is that true of all microkernels or just Mach? Hopefully there is one elegant simple microkernel out there. cs -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
