From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 1 12:31:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from energyhq.homeip.net (213-97-200-73.uc.nombres.ttd.es [213.97.200.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECB7A37B421 for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 12:31:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (swordfish.energyhq.org [192.168.0.1]) by energyhq.homeip.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 65F0723EC1; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 21:31:35 +0100 (CET) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Miguel Mendez Organization: Energy HQ To: "Rafter Man" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The Hurd Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 21:31:34 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <20020101191456.17623.qmail@linuxmail.org> In-Reply-To: <20020101191456.17623.qmail@linuxmail.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020101203135.65F0723EC1@energyhq.homeip.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 01 January 2002 20:14, Rafter Man wrote: > So my question is: Will FreeBSD take a good look at the Hurd? I tried the Hurd in 1999 and wasn't very impressed, just downloaded the H2 ISO but haven't tried it yet. The only thing that makes the Hurd look like Unix is the POSIX compat layer. The advantages of a microkernel vs (pseudo) monolothic are well known, as well as disadvantages. Of course I can't speak for the FreeBSD developers but IMHO there's very little, if anything, that can be taken from Hurd and imported into FreeBSD (or Unix in general). Yes, you can ran a BSD server on top of Mach (MacOS X) but it's not the same as Hurd does. I would find it far more interesting to take some Plan9 ideas than the ones that could be taken from Hurd. It seems like the only reason that project is alive is to satisfy RMS' ego :-) Err, did I say that? Nervermind. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net EnergyHQ :: http://energyhq.homeip.net FreeBSD - The power to serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message