From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 15 01:29:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA03084 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 01:29:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA03079 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 08:29:20 GMT (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id RAA01161; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:59:18 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980415175917.E1090@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:59:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Doug Lo , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's difference between FreeBSD and GNU's HURD? References: <353464F9.625EA36D@technologist.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <353464F9.625EA36D@technologist.com>; from Doug Lo on Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 03:42:49PM +0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 April 1998 at 15:42:49 +0800, Doug Lo wrote: > Hi, folks, > > My friend told me that GNU'S HURD is power more than FreeBSD and Linux, > is it the truth? > Would anyone tell me what's difference between FreeBSD and HURD? > advantages and disadvantages? My recollection is that the HURD is still not complete (still in alpha release). The last release on prep.ai.mit.edu is 0.2, and it's nearly a year old. I also recall that the HURD had all sorts of fancy features. The name stands for a HIRD of UNIX Replacing Daemons, and a HIRD is some other recursive acronym, of which the H stands for HURD. I never got interested enough to follow up. As far as I can tell, the Free Software Foundation has changed direction, and would rather use Linux than the HURD. Possibly people just lost interest. I have no idea whether it's better than Linux or FreeBSD, but I am sure that it would be an incredible amount of work to get it to work. You'd effectively join the development team. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message