Wintermute wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > From: Tommy Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On a bit of a tangent, how ready is the Hurd to replace the Linux kernel? > > > > I am not one of the people testing it. RMS is still running Debian on his > > laptop :-) > > > > What I would hope is that the HURD would support the 86open standard > > (essentially GNU LIBC with a cleaner substitute for ioctl()), and that > > a large number of Debian binary packages would run on all 86open platforms, > > including SCO and so on. We're going to have to get a lot farther with > > 86open > > before that happens. > > > > As I read more and more about Hurd.. I still can't stop thinking > "WHY?".. in a couple hundred more revisions.. the Linux kernel may well > come close to being a microkernel. What are the clear cut benefits? > (Just a few simple lines please.. no dissertations.. I'd as a professor > of computer science for that...)
There is a grand old discussion archived on KDE's web site at http://www.kde.org/food/linux_is_obsolete.html Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
