Re: The Hurd: what is it?

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl> writes:

> Only when you have multiple users that want to share a translator and
> when they do not trust each other.  At the moment such multi user
> systems are quite rare AFAIK.  More common is a system with a single
> user who is also has the root password.

I don't think we can say what is most common.

The intention of translators was that they would be good for everyone;
otherwise they are just a more expensive version of Plan 9.  I hope we
can identify a way to fix the problems rather than just punt.