On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 01:51:07PM +0200, "Sören Schulze" wrote: > GNU/Linux: [...] > Example: > Every Desktop Environment has its own handling of virtual file systems > (which will become redundant in the Hurd) and URL openings (would be > done by something like httpfs in the Hurd). > Though these are not even things that are DE-specific. They would be > also useful for other software - even text-based.
Note that Desktop Environments such as GNOME are not Linux specific. GNOME runs (and is well supported by Sun) on Solaris, for example. Of course, GNU/Hurd might have a better implementation of virtual file systems as Linux, but nevertheless you need a platform-independant fallback if you're running on something else than GNU. I don't know whether it's possible for text-based software to use libgnomevfs, but it only depends on libbonobo and not the core GNOME libraries so I don't see why it should be impossible. cheers, Michael _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
