If Viengoos fullfills the hopes I have in it since I read the paper from Neal, then it's likely that the GNU/Hurd will be ported to it.
In the meantime (the next few years at least I assume), the Hurd will use the gnumach kernel. If you're interested in Viengoos and porting the Hurd and stuff, please have a look at the hurd-l4 mailinglist: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd Best wishes, Arne PS: Please reply onlist - there are far more knowledgeable people than me on the lists, and you miss the chance to get an answer from them. Am Sonntag 09 November 2008 07:09:56 schrieb Gnu Logic: > Thanks Arne. So Viengoos is the microkernel GNU/Hurd might use in the > future not Coyotos? > > On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > On Saturday 08 November 2008 04:31:27 Gnu Logic wrote: > > > could someone please enlighten me on the current status of the GNU/Hurd > > > servers/kernel. Are the developers still looking to replace the Mach > > > kernel with the Coyotos microkernel? > > > > Currently they are first improving the Mach version, but Neal Walfield > > works > > on the Viengoos Microkernel, which should deliver some missing pieces and > > looks like a very promising base for GNU/Hurd systems. > > > > (for example Viengoos supplies an advanced resource management framework, > > so > > users can't create problems for others by hogging CPU time and similar). > > > > But the current version is runs on a modified mach kernel. > > > > If you want to see what the Hurd can currently do, just try one of the > > qemu images of the Debian GNU/Hurd and play a bit with it. Our wiki is > > down at the > > moment, so I can only give you the direct link: > > > > - > > http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/K16/debian-hurd-k16-qemu.img.tar.gz > > > > You can just start it with > > > > $ tar -xzf debian-hurd-k16-qemu.img.tar.gz > > $ qemu debian-hurd-k16-qemu.img > > > > Best wishes, > > Arne > > > > -- My stuff: http://draketo.de - stories, songs, poems, programs and > > stuff > > > > :) > > > > -- Infinite Hands: http://infinite-hands.draketo.de - singing a part of > > the > > history of free software. > > -- Ein Würfel System: http://1w6.org - einfach saubere (Rollenspiel-) > > Regeln. > > > > -- PGP/GnuPG: http://draketo.de/inhalt/ich/pubkey.txt -- My stuff: http://draketo.de - stories, songs, poems, programs and stuff :) -- Infinite Hands: http://infinite-hands.draketo.de - singing a part of the history of free software. -- Ein Würfel System: http://1w6.org - einfach saubere (Rollenspiel-) Regeln. -- PGP/GnuPG: http://draketo.de/inhalt/ich/pubkey.txt
