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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!kithrup!sef
- From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
- Subject: Re: GNU kids on the block? (sorry... couldn't resist)
- Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:53:16 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.195316.9174@kithrup.COM>
- Keywords: Linux, GNU, FSF, Mach, single-server, volunteer
- References: <ROLAND.92Aug24194541@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1992Aug25.123854.26792@uwm.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug25.123854.26792@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) writes:
- >I thought the GNU Hurd was supposed to be a UN*X look-alike *itself*.
- >This sounds very fishy, folks.
-
- The Hurd is a multi-server; I guess the Linux Single server would be a,
- well, single server. The difference seems pretty obvious to me: a single
- server consists of a single process / task / whatever, whereas a multiserver
- consists of lots of (hopefully small and fast) programs that sit and handle
- specific requests. For example, a filesystem server, a process server, a
- networking server, etc.
-
- There are a lot of people who do not want or need the complexity that comes
- with a multi-server, and, so, I guess there is a movement to make Linux work
- on top of Mach3.0.
-
- --
- Sean Eric Fagan | "You can't get lost in one room, no matter how
- sef@kithrup.COM | little effort you make to learn your way around."
- -----------------+ -- William E Davidsen (william@crd.GE.COM)
- Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.
-