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First Program Executed on L4 Port of GNU/HURD
wikinerd writes "The GNU Project was working on a new OS kernel called HURD from 1990, using the GNU Mach microkernel. However, when HURD-Mach was able to run a GUI and a browser, the developers decided to start from scratch and port the project to the high-performance L4 microkernel. As a result development was slowed by years, but now HURD developer Marcus Brinkmann made a historic step and finished the process initialization code, which enabled him to execute the first software on HURD-L4. He says: 'We can now easily explore and develop the system in any way we want. The dinner is prepared!'"
How fast is GNU/HURD compared to GNU/Linux? How about non-GNU/Linux?
To me HURD is like, well, like a missed opportunity.
Except this one, of course.
Slashdot: Where people pretend to be twice as smart as they really are by behaving like children.
... if GNU/HURD comes out before Longhorn?
Maybe the second program should be a better web server.
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that 1st program wasn't a web server by any chance, was it?
Reminds me of the Dilbert comic strip where an old man waves a piece of paper around and says "At last, I have formed a strategy that is acceptable to all departments. Now if only there were a way to reproduce text from one piece of paper to many."
Mach was still an active CMU project when the Hurd glacier began its very slow creep from the peaks of lofty idealism towards the throng of onlookers waiting patiently for the free unix kernel they always craved to reach them. I understand there are actually a few brave souls still standing there waiting.....
How much time would it take to port it over ?
The Internet's nature is peer to peer - 20050301_cs_profs.pdf
I, for one, welcome our new L4 overlords!
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HURD v Linux
Let me be the first to post the Kottke/HURD troll.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
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when me and richard m. stallman (the m stands for 'merryweather', did
you know that?) started GNU/hurd back in 1908, we were out to replace
the closed-internals of the international business machines (ibm)
automatic punch card tabulator, which was at use at the time in the
department of the census (where me and rich were summer interns).
those machines had a 2mm steel case sealed with canadian metric square
screws (wherever you call them, please don't correct me). since nobody
had any metric screwdrivers at the time, much less square ones, we had
no access to the internal cogs and wheels of the tabulator. we
definitely did not want to punch through the casing, because that
would void our warranty and service contract, and we would have to
contract ibm to build us a second tabulator (which cost nearly 200
american dollars, and took 7 months to assemble).
when it (frequently) broke down, we had to call an ibm machinist to
come open the case for us and oil the flywheel or unjam the transverse
flying arm on the card-feeder. as you can imagine, this seemed hardly
the ideal solution, because usually all it needed was a little bit of
work that me and rich could easily perform (even through we were not
trained calculating machine operators).
long story short, we starting working on the GNU/hurd tabulator. the
centerpiece to our system was the pipelined card loader, which could
load the next punchcard while the calculating engine was stilll
churning on the previous card. we had also designed the system so that
you could have dual loading mechanisms, so that one would always be
running if the other jammed. rich always insisted that we should
publish the blueprints for our machine, so that other people in our
tabulation club could also build similar machines, and help us with
the design. to me the whole idea sounded a bit bolshevik, but richard
seemed intent to follow through with it, and i didn't mind so much.
honestly, i didn't believe he would ever be able to publish anything,
given that his handwriting was quite terrible (although he was working
on a new type of typewriter, the electro-macs so that he would be
somewhat more legible).
5 years later, when i was conscripted to join the great war in europe,
we had a nearly complete tabulator in hand. we had solved nearly all
the problems of page clipping and bending that were present in our
earlier builds, and our machine could run at a rate of well over 70
cards per minute (compared to the ibm's 42). however, we never
completed the loader fully, and the latest model i saw could only hold
3 cards on the loading queue, making it much less than useful (however
promising).
i've lost contact with rich during the war years. i had always assumed
he's been killed in action. anyway, i'm glad to see he's still going
strong with our GNU/hurd tabulator, and wish him well on it. hopefully
it will be done before my great grandkids graduate college.
-- joe_bruin @ slashdot
I'm sure he would, if you will reconsider your use of the contraction "you're."
The L4Ka-based kernel is a new project that sounds like it has a lot of promise
I don't think something called "El Forka" sounds all that inspiring.
Get back to work, and stop waisting time. Have you downloaded that Debian ISO for me yet?
No? Then get back to work.
Is that silence because you can't configure your soundcard properly?
Funny... he's not going to miss you...
You're all a bunch of whiners. Either the strip is funny, or it's not. If it's not, don't read it and shut the hell up. Boycotting a strip that you're reading for free every day is not going to affect anything.
I wish that my inferiority complex were as good as yours.
-RenderHead
So basically you're saying that All Slashdotters use Operating System XYZ and Browser ABC, except for when they don't. :P
:)
Your statistics have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that, yes, we use computers and web browsers to view web sites.
Bravo
... and I was expecting "Hello world!"
Well, this is fairly wrong but some of the truth is there.
A 'ring' of truth, perhaps?
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What is union busing? Is that free trips for senior citizens to the pipefitters?