🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <WILLIAMS.95Mar28223531@martha.utcc.utk.edu>,
Myles Williams <williams@martha.utcc.utk.edu> wrote:
>> Since there has been a suggestion that no one would
>> use Hurd, I will throw in my two cents and say that
>> I would use Hurd.
>
> Same here.  The contention is that time has passed the Hurd by.  What OS
> available today has
>
> 1) Unix AND Mach system mechanisms

Admittedly it's a stretch, but NetBSD uses the Mach VM ... :-)

> 2) a development-oriented (i.e. modular) system architecture

NetBSD is pretty modular ... source tree has nicely delineated sub-trees
for things like arch/bus arch/... etc.  For example:

netbsd4me:1:24 [/] % ls /usr/src/sys/arch/i386
Makefile        conf/           include/        pci/
boot/           eisa/           isa/            stand/
compile/        i386/           netboot/

> 3) generalized filesystems (e.g. transparent TAR and FTP)

You could easily port Alex to NetBSD, and it's got oodles of other
filesystem types at this point ...

> 4) free source?

NetBSD all the way.

That's not to say that the Hurd won't be interesting, of course :-)

It's just that there *is* something out there which has a lot of the
good bits that you're looking for, and it's multi-platform already,
which is another big win (I hope the Hurd will be, too?).

Besides, Linux ... ewwwww  :-)

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