Re: about GNU Hurd

[Filip Brcic]

Дана уторак 04 септембар 2007, Richard Stallman је написао(ла):
>     If we are sure we need HURD-NG, it is no-sense to work in Hurd on
>     gnumach anymore. To ask people to work in Hurd on gnumach is then to
>     ask hackers to work in something that wont be useful.
>
> That's too strong a statement.  To work on a short-term version and a
> long-term version in parallel is not absurd.  I think that people do
> lots of work on the stable version of Linux while others do work on
> preparing the next one.

I don't think that is an adequate parallel, but your point is right. Since 
Hurd servers should work everywhere where Hurd does, there is no (or little) 
problem in porting existing servers from Hurd on GNUMach to Hurd on L4, 
Coyotos, SomeOtherKernel.

> But the Mach-based version of the Hurd is not stable, and not much in
> use.  If we can make it good to use, in the next year or so, that will
> be worth while.  But perhaps not easy or not feasible.

100% agreed. That should be the first goal - to port recent Linux or BSD 
drivers to Hurd/Mach and to make GNUMach work on all (or most) x86-based 
processors. If we get a system that can do at least most thing people use 
every day, there will be more people who will be willing to actually use 
GNU/Hurd on their computers. By the common stuff that should work, I refer to 
browsing the web, read/writeing e-mail, making documents using 
{open,gnome,k}office and printing them afterwards, etc.

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