On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 01:38 -0500, Danny Piccirillo wrote: > A GNU Hurd port may not be for most users, but i was wondering if we > had the resources to support such a port as Debian does, and if it > would be worth the effort. I think it would be cool, but are there any > reasons against this? > Speaking as the guy who maintains the boot and plumbing layer, I am completely and utterly uninterested in such a port.
All of the improvements made in this layer, leading to things like fast boot, fast suspend & resume, reliable hotplug, etc. have been fundamentally done by forgetting about portability and writing software designed *only* for Linux. If you wanted to do a Hurd port (or BSD port), you'd basically have to redo all of this work from scratch again. I don't think there's ever a reason to say we won't switch kernels one day, one day Linux might not be the best kernel. If we ever do that, it would be a complete "flag day" switch. I am firmly against trying to support two kernels with one userland. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com
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