Re: A GNU/Hurd Roadmap dream

2009-06-14 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Samstag, 13. Juni 2009 00:28:34 schrieb ms: > as much as I appreciate pro-Hurd propaganda, giving false > expectations could be more harm than good Forgot to say: You're definitely right with that. Just remember KDE4 - and they tried everything short of decreasing the version number to tell pe

Re: A GNU/Hurd Roadmap dream

2009-06-14 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Samstag, 13. Juni 2009 00:28:34 schrieb ms: > It would be more useful if it states what kind of everyday work it is. > (Sorry for me coming out of the blue and playing the devil's advocate, > but as much as I appreciate pro-Hurd propaganda, giving false > expectations could be more harm than goo

RE: NX support in GNU Mach

2009-06-14 Thread Yuhong Bao
In fact, even Windows XP SP2 and later had to enable PAE with physical address space limited to 4GB in order to enable NX. 32-bit GNU Mach is limited to 1 GB of memory, so NX and Xen support are the only uses for PAE on 32-bit GNU Mach. To actually address more than 1 GB GNU Mach will need to b

Re: NX support in GNU Mach

2009-06-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Yuhong Bao, le Sun 14 Jun 2009 00:02:44 -0700, a écrit : > In fact, even Windows XP SP2 and later had to enable PAE with physical > address space limited to 4GB in order to enable NX. Err, of course, the NX bit wouldn't be there, else. > 32-bit GNU Mach is limited to 1 GB of memory, so NX and Xe