At Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:58:07 +0100, Ruben Pollan wrote: > I'm student of computer engineering on spain. I'm about to finish my degree (5 > years of study). I have to do a master's thesis, I'm interesting on hurd and I > think will be a good idea do something about hurd. > > I don't have much experience on hurd, I just have user knowledge using a > Debian > GNU/Hurd. I have some knowledge programming on C, and about operative systems. > > Can you give me some ideas about things that have to be done on hurd? > > Thanks, and sorry if this is not the appropriate list.
I suggest you start by reading these two papers: A Critique of the GNU Hurd Multi-server Operating System http://walfield.org/papers/200707-walfield-critique-of-the-GNU-Hurd.pdf Improving Usability via Access Decomposition and Policy Refinement http://walfield.org/papers/20070104-walfield-access-decomposition-policy-refinement.pdf They highlight some of the problems with the Hurd and its underlying design. Specifically, we identify three general issues: resource management, security and naming. I'm doing work on the first in the context of Viengoos (but it is designed to form a basis for the other issues as well). For an overview of resource management in Viengoos, please read this paper: Viengoos: A Framework for Stakeholder-Directed Resource Allocation. http://walfield.org/papers/2009-walfield-viengoos-a-framework-for-stakeholder-directed-resource-allocation.pdf There are number of interesting projects both on the current version of the Hurd as well as on as Viengoos. When you have a better idea of what sort of issues you want to tackle, feel free to write again. Neal
