Re: A niche for the Hurd

[Benoit FREMON]

* Arne Babenhauserheide (arne_bab@web.de) wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 29 Oktober 2008 10:51:15 schrieb Benoit FREMON:
> > How is this different from what marketing people call "Cloud Computing" ?
> > Perhaps using the Hurd this way gives you more control, but I don't see
> > much difference here...
> 
> Asking the question the other way round: Is could computing a niche the Hurd 
> could fit in? 

I don't see why the Hurd (or subhurds) couldn't be used as a platform for cloud 
computing. But as this buzzword spread like fire on the internet, and cloud 
computing 
is more and more used (even MS is aware of the trend, and acting:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/27/220208&from=rss), I don't think 
it's a 
niche anymore. 

But zhengda GSOC work is definitely a step towards this approach for the hurd. 
But 
I don't know if actually a subhurd is able to migrate from one host to 
another...

Disclaimer: I'm not a hurd expert (I only played with it in Qemu, and I have 
been following hurd-related mailing lists for quite some time...) 

-ben

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