Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270411AbTGSR6F (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 13:58:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270423AbTGSR6F (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 13:58:05 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:24024 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270411AbTGSR6B (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 13:58:01 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:12:49 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Ga?l Le Mignot Cc: Larry McVoy , Christian Reichert , John Bradford , lkml@lrsehosting.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rms@gnu.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Subject: Re: [OT] HURD vs Linux/HURD Message-ID: <20030719181249.GA24197@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Ga?l Le Mignot , Larry McVoy , Christian Reichert , John Bradford , lkml@lrsehosting.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rms@gnu.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <200307191503.h6JF3tac002376@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <1058626962.30424.6.camel@stargate> <20030719172311.GA23246@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0, required 7) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2970 Lines: 69 On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 07:46:54PM +0200, Ga?l Le Mignot wrote: > 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. The microkernel part of any reasonable microkernel is tiny. The QNX microkernel used to fit in a 4K instruction cache. To say that the microkernel is the operating system is ludicrous, that's like say this series of 5 instructions which happen to get run a lot are the whole program. Without the BSD part, you had no operating system, no devices, no nothing. What you had was a mechanism which can context switch, something that every first year OS student has written (or should have). I stand behind the statement and I've read all the Mach papers, all the Mach code, and lectured on it at little places like Stanford University. I'm pretty sure I know what I'm talking about. > > pried apart into chunks by people at CMU. > > GNU Mach is a modified version of OSF Mach which is modified version > of CMU Mach. Whatever. That's your label. Personally, I despise this business of taking someone else's code and renaming it. It's not GNU code, the GNU people didn't write it. > > 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. I've got a shelf of OS texts, probably close to 90% of all the OS texts written and I don't recall any of them teaching that you should take other people's code, rename it, and claim it as your own in the name of 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. Hey, you want to spout nonsense then be prepared to be challenged. I'm just responding to something that is obviously incorrect, that's not trolling, that's setting the record straight. I think it was Dave Miller who told me the other night that an unchallenged incorrect statement becomes true by default and I agree. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - 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/