Marcus Brinkmann writes: > Cliff-whoever-he-is should never have posted this question, as it is > downright silly and the quick answer is more than obvious, and the long > answer is not to be found out by the bunch of slashdotters. Slashdot is > very bad at researching the background of the stuff they post. > > Thanks anyway for the heads up, but I think it should be said that the > comments are not really worth reading.
There are a few decent myth-dispellers, which don't have anything to do with Big Iron. There are some `HURD might be cool, but it's not buzzword-compliant' posts. There are a lot of `HURD? what's that?' responses, and, of course, `HURD is dead and/or unnecessary' and `RMS is a lunatic'. Aigh. The comments addressing the idea of `free unix on Big Iron' pretty much all say, `just fork Linux or use NetBSD'. I saw *one* post that actually said something with a remote chance of being meaningful with regard to both HURD and Big Iron: `microkernels are good on Big Iron'. So, there's the summary; you're right--they're not worth reading;)
