Re: [OT]: Hurd microkernel portability.

[Farid Hajji]

> > > It tickles to me read things like, "netbsd, the most portable OS in
> > > the world", and stuff like that.
> > Anything wrong with that?
> GNU/Hurd ultimately needs to be 'THE OS'. We can't compromise on that,
> can we ??
Why? GNU/Hurd is a great system, and it would be even better if
more people worked on it. Yet it has its shortcomings, as we
all know. No OS could IMO cover all aspects. Just think of
embedded OS(es) (both time-triggered and interrupt-controlled),
OSes for SIMD and MIMD architectures, ...

Ah, you meant "Desktop/Server OS?". Well... ;-)

-Farid.

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