Am Sonntag 23 November 2008 05:25:10 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Would that as concrete example mean, that each Hurd would use > > translators to "masquerade" as a generic platform, hiding all the > > specifics beneath the mask? > > Not sure what you mean. > > The idea is that each application (appliance) would come with a set of > translators, providing an individual environment, specially geared > towards the needs of the application, and relatively independent of the > host system. > > Of course major changes in the host system might still affect the > applications in some way, so it's not as robust as an appliance running > in a fully virtual environment -- but it could be an interesting middle > ground between that, and traditional applications running in the shared > host environment directly.
OK, I 'm now pretty certain I understand what you mean. You have different host systems, but the translators make them fit the application in question. Thanks for the explanation! 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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