Am Donnerstag 13 November 2008 23:17:29 schrieb Michal Suchanek: > The security model used by EROS and Coyotos uses capabilities instead.
As far as I understand Neals research paper, he's also thinking in that direction. But please see below for the timeframe. > However, this requires fundamental redesign of the current Hurd. This > is why some people think that it would be also a good idea to drop the > now-obsolete Mach and start with a modern kernel which is also > incidentally designed to support capabilities. While I think that this sounds interesting, it doesn't seem like a viable way to go in the Hurds current situation. When more and more people join in, so larger projects can be tackled and finished, this might become a good option, though. The Hurd is to a good deal a collection of servers and communication APIs after all, so why shouldn't these be ported to different kinds of microkernels (preferable with a compatibility layer of sorts, so developments can be shared easily). But that's for the time when the Hurd will have more than a handful of active core developers, and to reach that time, it first needs to reach other niches, since every journey still consists of many smaller steps - and every one of these steps has the chance of attracting additional developers. > > And would you join in? > > For me the current Hurd is not of much interest anymore. From my point > of view the very foundation is fundamentally flawed, and I am not a > microkernel or hardware developer so I cannot start a new one. > Still given the Hurd development timeframes it is not completely > impossible I would become one before the Hurd is finished. Since that only depends on the question if you'll become a Hurd developer in your lifetime (an OS is never really finished :) ), I hope we can greet you here as developer some day. 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
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