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- From: wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni)
- Subject: Re: GNU Hurd (was Re: BSD Unix)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.171520.14996@cs.brown.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- References: <23992@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1992Jul21.112705.6276@cs.cornell.edu> <1992Jul21.131526.8920@ncsu.edu>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:15:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.131526.8920@ncsu.edu> jlnance@eos.ncsu.edu (JAMES LEWIS NANCE) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Jul21.112705.6276@cs.cornell.edu>, murthy@cs.cornell.edu (Chet Murthy) writes:
- >|> free unix is perhaps 2 years away - in 2 years, linux will be stable.
- >|> In two years, the GNU Hurd will be stable. And AT&T can
- >
- >I have been wondering this for some time but have refrained from asking it
- >because it sounds like a flame, but it is not.
- >
- >GNU has been working on Hurd for as long as I have know about them. This has
- >been at least 3 years, and I have seen nothing from them. Linus has been
- >working on linux for about a year and a half, and has produced a very good
- >operating system. Does anyone know what is taking GNU so long? Prehaps they
- >have released beta versions that I am unaware of, or prehaps they do not
- >want to release anything before they get it finished? Anyone know?
- >
-
- Two folds:
- 1) Until very recently, GNU had yet to get the permission from CMU for
- the use of Mach source code. This is related to legal actions.
-
- 2) The BSD layer above Mach is not easy to write concerning about the
- fact that the 386-related Mach 3.0 code is larger than Linux.
-
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-
- Wen-Chun Ni
- P.S. I expect the Hurd system to be large, a little slow, yet very powerful.
- I like Linux better even though it doesn't support from-scratch
- thread scheduling like Mach 3.0.
-