Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

On Wednesday 28 July 2010 14:13:44 Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>         For those
wishing for a better experience, a Linux kernel module
>         version of
Mach could be developed at some time later.

That would be quite neat.


Then adding Hurd to other distributions would be easy, too. 

>        
Then, the sole question will be the tasks that Hurd covers.
>        
Eventually, some users may find that they use little or no
>         native
Linux modules, but instead use the Hurd ones.  The
>         transition to
GNU/Hurd[/Linux] will be over for them.

That sounds like the most powerful
way to spread the Hurd. 

People could then create 3rd party programs which
depend on the Hurd and run on every GNU/Linux distribution out
there.

Reasons for switching from GNU/Hurd/Linux to a Hurd without Linux
could then be 

* have a cleaner system or
* go GPLv3. Maybe also 
* „Linux
gets pushed into directions I don’t like“. 

Do you see other reasons?


Best wishes, 
Arne

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