1 Jun
2007
1 Jun
'07
10:13 a.m.
VP dropped bits saying:
They are still struggling because Freedom is not the primary motivation. When Linux, the kernel filled the last main component for a complete Free Operating System, the biggest motivation -- Freedom -- is gone, and now the driving force for Hurd is a technically superior kernel replacement that the current operating system research recommends -- micro kernel design.
i'm with you there 100% micro kernels are the future.
Microkernels are theoretically superior. In practice however, you almost always need a compromise between theoretically superior technology and efficiently implementable technology. Linux's pluggable modules are just such a compromise, and works well.
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All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.
-- Dawkins