Re: [OT]: Hurd microkernel portability.

2002-12-07 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:56:14PM +0600, Cherry George Mathew wrote: > But seriously, there's lots of us out there looking forward to a stable, > fast and efficient release of the GNU/Hurd. Press on, and good luck. > I'll see if I can marshall the resources to contribute in some humble > way. The

Re: [OT]: Hurd microkernel portability.

2002-12-07 Thread Cherry George Mathew
> Ah, you meant "Desktop/Server OS?". Well... ;-) > I meant "_The_ Desktop/Server OS !". :-) But seriously, there's lots of us out there looking forward to a stable, fast and efficient release of the GNU/Hurd. Press on, and good luck. I'll see if I can marshall the resources to contribute in som

Re: [OT]: Hurd microkernel portability.

2002-12-07 Thread Farid Hajji
> > > It tickles to me read things like, "netbsd, the most portable OS in > > > the world", and stuff like that. > > Anything wrong with that? > GNU/Hurd ultimately needs to be 'THE OS'. We can't compromise on that, > can we ?? Why? GNU/Hurd is a great system, and it would be even better if more pe

Re: [OT]: Hurd microkernel portability.

2002-12-07 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
Possibly you want to fix your mailer to appreciate `Reply-to' headers. On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:21:46AM +0600, Cherry George Mathew wrote: > start_possible_flame() > > GNU/Hurd ultimately needs to be 'THE OS'. We can't compromise on that, > can we ?? > > end_possible_flame(). I don't know wha

Re: [OT]: Hurd microkernel portability.

2002-12-07 Thread Cherry George Mathew
> > I'm not sure what you mean with `ripping up the libc library once > again'. > Quoting Neal below: > meet its requirements. In the Hurd, the primary users of ports are > libports and glibc. Sorry for the confusion. > Thank

Re: [OT]: Hurd microkernel portability.

2002-12-07 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 09:37:20PM +0600, Cherry George Mathew wrote: > Sorry to barge into the filesystems discussion, but I'm wondering > whether the hurd team has decided on what level exactly to bind the hurd > to a microkernel ? The last I heard of this on the l4-hurd list was a > discussion a

[OT]: Hurd microkernel portability.

2002-12-07 Thread Cherry George Mathew
Hello, Sorry to barge into the filesystems discussion, but I'm wondering whether the hurd team has decided on what level exactly to bind the hurd to a microkernel ? The last I heard of this on the l4-hurd list was a discussion about ripping up the libc library once again, I think by Farid Hajji or