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- From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: GNU seeks volunteer to write Linux single-server for Mach 3.0
- Keywords: Linux, GNU, FSF, Mach, single-server, volunteer
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.044210.2753@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 04:42:10 GMT
- References: <ROLAND.92Aug24194541@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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- Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
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- In article <ROLAND.92Aug24194541@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu> linux-ss@gnu.ai.mit.edu 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.
- >
- >We want to use Mach, so straight Linux isn't what we are looking for.
- >But Linux as a Unix emulator, running on top of Mach, could be just
- >the thing to let us work on Mach development with nothing but free
- >software. We could also use it to release a complete free Mach-based
- >system soon.
-
- What advantage does Mach have over straight Linux?
- Is it worth loosing the simplicity and smallness of the Linux
- kernel for it? The Mach systems I've seen have bigger kernel's than
- Linux, and thats not counting the servers.
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