×××× ××××× 21 ××××× 2003, 07:20, ×××× ×× ××× Behdad Esfahbod: > On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > > linux? what linux? > > > > in 5 years i would like to use the hurd! :) > > What does the hypothetical hurd has promised you to do that you > like to use it? Is it the name that is better than linux? IMHO > forget about hurd. It's simply dead. Who's gonna write all > these drivers again? The best is that they need porting every > driver from linux to so called hurd which may be simply an > implementation of linux's internal interface... as hirds...
I do believe that the hurd can offer a much better user experience then linux, for the home user as well as the hobist (don't know about buisness servers). the more extensible nature of the hurd's architecture and the much better designed API (well it was designed, which is usually better then "evolved" which is what the Linux API did) will probably make integration of system components much better then it is in Linux. The current status in Linux is a disaster. installation of a new hardware piece is ten times more difficult then in any other competing OS, even taking into account all the neat scripts that people write in order to circumvent the shortcomings of the kernel. (yes, I know 2.6 is much better then how it used to be, but its still not good enough). Unfortunatly as other people have mentioned - the HURD is seriously lacking in developers, especially driver writers. Linux is to blame for most of that. and at this stage HURD developers had best put all their efforts into porting Linux drivers to HURD as this is the fastest route to getting more people to install HURD, get more testing done and get more developers in the project. In 5 years I hope to be using HURD on my primary computer, but I really hope it won't take 5 years. Oh, and in 5 years I'd also like to see the current XFree86 scrapped in favor of a better performing, better looking, easier to configure alternative. Fresco would be neat, but I'd settle for Keith Richard's work or getting everything to run on XDirectFB. -- Oded ::.. You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
