Hello,
I see that we have a google summer of code project page. It would be pretty cool if we could add suggestions for thesis-es! I would like to help with the write-up for some of these issues, but someone else may need to edit the final product. Here are some initial ideas. Some may be bad ideas. - Port to other architectures Risc-V, ARM, etc. This may be a unsustainable. Porting to another architecture is non-trivial and requires constant investment. This is a constant and ongoing process. Would a thesis be enough to keep this going strong? - Persistance This is probably way to vague, but it would be a cool research project! - Resource management Currently the Hurd lacks a proper resource management framework. Perhaps a student could develop a framework so that the Hurd can manage resources better. - Spector/Meltdown mitigation Currently the hurd does not have a method of working around Spector or Meltdown. Someone could develop such a method. - Setuid vs. constructor I found this on the Hurdng wiki page. Perhaps this one is too meta? Possibly a bad idea? - more filesystems! ext3/4, btrfs, xfs, bcachefs, etc. - realtime Video players need to run on a realtime operating system to give the best experience. Currently the Hurd is not a real-time operating system, but it could become one. - Mach performance things? Mach is a first generational microkernel. There is a page talking about how to simplify the mach message format, but could we do better? I actually have no idea if this is a good project. I'm just guessing here. - 64 bit port - some cool translator? - sshfs - gitfs -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus
