At Sun, 13 Jun 2004 15:00:26 +0200, azeem wrote: > > 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.
In fact, I heard a rumor that GNOME is going away from POSIX file semantics to something self-knitted. Oh well. I guess people who are happy about glib like such things. Thanks, Marcus _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
