hai all, this is my 1st post here. i also sent this email to "L4-HURD" mailing list. i am simply putting it here to know what your views are:
yesterday, i searched last months archives of this mailing list which gave me an insight into the the conversation happened here & also i came to know some very interesting things. just stay with me here & before i go on i must tell you my reason of writing this email: http://www.coyotos.org/pipermail/coyotos-dev/2006-August/000624.html why i am doing this? because *technically* Linux was possible because of GNU. i am talking about tools & resources, not about freedom. even if you cut away the freedom part GNU still wins the technical ground & i am running a Linux based GNU system as my Desktop. that was possible because of (tools + GPL) of GNU. i want to give a contribution in return & i have decided that i will only work on "copyleft" softwares. i & this whole world owe many thanks to RMS. now i will get down to the point: i am always *fascinated* by the idea of a microkernel based OS especially these 2 things always mesmerised me: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-paper.html http://l4ka.org/projects/pistachio/ i have never worked for any project, i dont even know a programming language completely. i just know some Common Lisp, 50% of C & right now learning C++. i dont have any idea of system programming, device drivers, GUIs, UIs, Algorithms, Data-Structures etc etc. still i spent whole 5 months (March-August 2006) reading articles on L4, FIASCO, HURD, OSs etc from different online resources. i feel attached to "OS programming" & after searching the archives yesterday, i came across these 2 new things: http://coyotos.org/docs/osverify-2004/osverify-2004.html http://coyotos.org/docs/bitc/relnotes-0.9.html i also know that even after decades of work *we* are not able to create a microkernel based copyleft OS, one of my dreams. i include myself in *we* as FSF is doing work for users & developers, not for itself. after so much thought, i propose to write a new, fresh microkernel for HURD OS & i am willing to help in coding. i know it is not easy & i also know since early 1980s we kept on changing & changing because of *things outside* . we kept on changing our microkernels since 1983 & it did not do any good to us. it is not bad but we have neither failed nor succeeded, & that way from this path we carry lots of experience & specific technical knowledge that very few people on this planet possess. i propose to put our time & energy into the application of the expertise we have into the direction where we have never gone, our own microkernel. still, i see Neal,Marcus,Shapiro & a few others whose name i usually forgot (sorry for that) carry expertise. i am open to thoughts. -- arnuld http://arnuld.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
