Re: Gentoo GNU/Hurd thread in Gentoo Forums

2008-11-21 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Marek Dopiera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Monday 17 of November 2008 14:34:23 Sergiu Ivanov napisaƂ(a): > > Well, I wonder whether porting Hurd to NetBSD kernel would take less > > effort than it should have taken to port it to L4 or Coyotos. Still, > > both attem

Microkernels (was: A niche for the Hurd - multi-core systems)

2008-11-21 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:39:30AM +, Zheng Da wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 1:18 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am quite curious: why did porting to the modern microkernels fail? Well, it's a long story, and I don't understand all the details myself. I'll try to give a very rough

Re: What shall the filter do to bottommost translators

2008-11-21 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:33:51PM +0200, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:01 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 10:57:37PM +0200, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > > Note that the only sensible use for a filter is placing it at the > > > bottom of the dynamic t

Re: Niche for the Hurd - summary 2 - niches sorted according to necessary work

2008-11-21 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 05:42:49PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > I think to make it *the* GNU system we'd need it in a state where I > can just start any desktop on it and work with it just like in a > GNU/Linux, because else people would just shrug and say "This is GNU > then, I thin

Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check

2008-11-21 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Freitag 21 November 2008 06:46:11 schrieb Arne Babenhauserheide: > $ settrans target_file allow_write PID For a temporary allowance, this should maybe be $ settrans -a target_file allow_write PID So when the translator shuts down it is gone (active translator). Best wishes, Arne -- -- My