On Monday 28 Feb 2005 11:19 am, Joe Steeve wrote:
Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@thenilgiris.com writes:
ok, maybe it is still just alive - but its soon gonna be dead - and no number of C programmers can revive it
Ok., i dont wish to start a flame war here. But technically ( any OS researcher would agree ) the Hurd is a much better design than the Linux kernel. The Hurd is `Extensible` and is capable of doing things which cannot be done in a clean (not dirty hacks) way on the Linux kernel. The Linux kernel is a step back in technology., because of its Monolithic design. Microkernels had their bad time., but not anymore. The future is there. Sticking with a legacy system is not a good idea.
i frankly admit that i know nothing about hurd - i was just echoing linus torwalds comments on hurd. What he said is that it is over engineered and hence although it looks great on paper, it can never be properly implemented. Which is why very few people are interested in developing it.