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- From: s.telford@ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: GNU kids on the block? (sorry... couldn't resist)
- Keywords: Linux, GNU, FSF, Mach, single-server, volunteer
- Message-ID: <42319@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 11:58:51 GMT
- References: <ROLAND.92Aug24194541@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1992Aug25.123854.26792@uwm.edu>
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- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, UK.
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- In article <1992Aug25.123854.26792@uwm.edu>, rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) writes:
- > roland@prep.ai.mit.edu (Roland McGrath) writes:
- > >The GNU Project would like to find a volunteer to work on a
- > >single-server for the Mach 3.0 microkernel based on Linux.
-
- > >Since AT&T's lawsuit, we can no longer rely on using BNR2SS, the
- > >single-server based on the Berkeley Networking 2 release.
-
- > I thought the GNU Hurd was supposed to be a UN*X look-alike *itself*.
- > This sounds very fishy, folks.
-
- Here's the relevant bit from the June 92 GNUS Bulletin:
- ===============================================================================
- * Free Unix Emulator for Mach
-
- Randall Dean at CMU is finishing up a free BSD-based Unix emulator for
- Mach. It does not yet run reliably, but if it does become robust well
- before the Hurd is ready we will probably use it to create an early,
- completely free GNU system. We do not expect tape distribution of this
- emulator before the next issue of the GNUs Bulletin. Please don't ask us
- about this project; we will make an announcement when it is ready.
-
- Roland McGrath is porting the GNU C library to work with this emulator.
-
- (Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.)
- ===============================================================================
-
- Presumably, Randall's emulator has net/2 code in it, so the FSF want
- to substitute bits of Linux instead. Sounds like a good idea: Linux
- would then not only be an old-fashioned monolithic-kernel-style
- Unix-clone but also form the basis of a next-generation microkernel
- Unix system on top of Mach - this should please Andy Tanenbaum 8^).
- Exactly how much code could be ported is questionable, I suppose.
-
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- Scott Telford, Dept of Computer Science, electric mail: s.telford@ed.ac.uk
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