GNU/Hurd Delayed To Fix Disk Size, Serial I/O Limitations

gregger writes "This Infoworld article indicates that the GNU/Hurd is still waiting to stampede. Evidently they have to switch from the GNU Mach implementation they're using now to OSKit's Mach which will help them support faster serial I/O and larger hard discs. Currently GNU/Hurd will only support somewhere between 1 to 2 GB partitions."

Comments

Re:Systems work

[cscx]

Of course not. Writing operating systems is fun.

These guys are obviously smart, and can be writing software to find cures for cancer and AIDS. But, hey, why do any of that when you can be working on HURD?

So long as RMS is in control, HURD is useless

[just another cynic]

(for me at least - I'm talking about my desktop GNU/Linux box here)

Because :

(1) Companies can't release closed source kernel drivers (ala nvidia) for HURD (afaik).

(2) RMS is virtually impossible to deal with, compounding (1).

Re:Tha HURD

[phunhippy]

No, Stallman is pushing this thing because its modular

right! like 1gb drives!

Can we get a new category?

[BiOFH]

For a name I would suggest the "No one really gives a shit any longer" category.

Whether you choose to make the icon a pic of RMS beating a dead horse or a BeOS logo is up to you...

Re:whoops

[asuffield]

Nope, this simply isn't news. The Hurd has been grossly incomplete and not ready for release for years, and it still is now.

Why on earth does this merit a slashdot headline?

Mach/Hurd

[IvyMike]

Out of fairness, shouldn't this thing be called Mach/Hurd? (Or Mach/Gnu/Hurd, or Gnu/Mach/Hurd, or whatever....the point is the addition of "Mach") I suggest this for all the same reasons Stallman thinks it should be Gnu/Linux.

Re:Useful?

[1nfern0]

cmon, you can at leasst mod him up for not posting: FFPFPFPFPFPFPFpfppfpffpfffffffff wooooo FlICK PLIcK etc and mod me down, cause of course you will

Re:Linux? an OS?

[dvdeug]

Torvalds's instructions are to call the Linux operating system "just plain 'Linux,'" so that's what people must do.

Assuming, of course, that you're someone who thinks that the Linux trademark matters. If you're someone like Linus Torvalds, and realize that the trademark is a legally formality that only exists because of lawyers and idiots, and you aren't one of them, then you can do what ever you find reasonable with the word Linux.

Re:Tha HURD

[elmegil]

That's not a tiny niche market?