GNU/Hurd Gets POSIX Threads

Posted by Hemos on Monday September 30, 2002 @03:28AM from the hurding-instincts dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Neal Walfield announced the first release of RMGPT, which is (or rather, aspires to one day be) a complete, portable implementation of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 threads also known as POSIX threads. With this new pthreads library, it will soon be possible to run complex software packages on the Hurd, including the GNOME and KDE desktops, the OpenOffice suite, and the Mozilla web browser. Find more information here, including the humorous meaning behind RMGPT, and insight into a future Hurd release..."

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Re:My apologies to RMS by jbailey999 · 2002-09-30 03:51 · Score: 5, Informative

The core design of the Hurd still isn't in use by any Free OS out there. The idea is to have as much as possible sit in userspace, and to have "translators" that allow any user to add hooks into the filesystem (making cool things like ftpfs and nfs possible without requiring root, and without requiring the sysadmin to install it for you).
If you're interested, take a look at Towards a New Strategy of OS Design - It explains what we're doing different with the Hurd, and what the core servers are used for.
Tks,
Jeff Bailey