Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270351AbTGSR3l (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 13:29:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270377AbTGSR3l (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 13:29:41 -0400 Received: from smtp-106-saturday.nerim.net ([62.4.16.106]:43278 "EHLO kraid.nerim.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270351AbTGSR3i (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 13:29:38 -0400 To: Larry McVoy Cc: Christian Reichert , John Bradford , lkml@lrsehosting.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lm@bitmover.com, rms@gnu.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Subject: Re: [OT] HURD vs Linux/HURD Mail-Copies-To: nobody References: <200307191503.h6JF3tac002376@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <1058626962.30424.6.camel@stargate> <20030719172311.GA23246@work.bitmover.com> From: kilobug@freesurf.fr (=?iso-8859-1?q?Ga=EBl_Le_Mignot?=) Organization: HurdFr - http://hurdfr.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1F2C 9804 7505 79DF 95E6 7323 B66B F67B 7103 C5DA Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 19:46:54 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20030719172311.GA23246@work.bitmover.com> (Larry McVoy's message of "Sat, 19 Jul 2003 10:23:11 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1635 Lines: 44 Hello Larry! Sat, 19 Jul 2003 10:23:11 -0700, you wrote: >> - GNU/Hurd, the whole systems, is actually GNU tools (libc, linker, >> ...) on top of the GNU Hurd (set of servers) and the GNU Mach >> microkernel. > Mach wasn't written by GNU, it's a BSD based kernel Totally wrong. You're confusing the Mach operating system (with UX, a BSD-server on top of the Mach micro-kernel) and the Mach micro-kernel itself. > pried apart into chunks by people at CMU. GNU Mach is a modified version of OSF Mach which is modified version of CMU Mach. > Drivers and networking account for about 50% of the total lines of code. > The bulk of the work in any operating system is typically drivers. The > generic part of Linux (non-driver, non-file system) is tiny compared to > the rest. Maybe for you, an OS is drivers. For me, it's a design, an architecture, a philosophy, and a way to defend a value that is not important for you: Freedom. > If the Hurd gets its drivers from Linux then it should rightfully be called > Linux/HURD (or Linux/HURD/GNU). Stop trolling, thank you. -- Gael Le Mignot "Kilobug" - kilobug@nerim.net - http://kilobug.free.fr GSM : 06.71.47.18.22 (in France) ICQ UIN : 7299959 Fingerprint : 1F2C 9804 7505 79DF 95E6 7323 B66B F67B 7103 C5DA Member of HurdFr: http://hurdfr.org - The GNU Hurd: http://hurd.gnu.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/