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Mark Stankus (mstankus@oba.ucsd.edu) wrote:
> Is there a hurd mailing list?

You can subscribe to the Hurd announcement list by sending a request to
"hurd-ann-request@gnu.ai.mit.edu".
This is a moderated list for distributing Hurd info to ``all and sundry'',
and anyone can join. 

> newsgroups?

No.

> www home page?

http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/hurd.html


> I volunteer if someone wants a proofreader of documentation
> being written for hurd.

Contact mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu. Thank you!

> Some questions:
>    Is the goal to be a better unix? 

Yes.

>    a better free unix? 

Yes.

>    how will it compare to other free unix systems? 

It will be compatible, but better.

>    I have read the faq a long time ago, but it was too
>    technical for me to understand.  

Contact me and tell me what you didn`t understand.

> I just finished the "Unix Hater's Handbook" and it brings
> out a number of faults of Unix. I was wondering
> how hurd will stand up to some of the following questions:

> 4) Is is easier than unix for a system administrator to maintain?

I don`t think that the base system will be easieri than UNIX.
We - The GNU OpenStep Development Team - intent to port our applications to
the GNU Hurd.  This includes such an easy-to-use tool.

> 8) Can one use several small drives together as a big drive?

Yes. You can mount file systems like under UNIX.

> 12) Will hurd give one a way to ask if you really meant
>     to say 'rm *'? How about other common stupid mistakes
>     a unix person might do?

This would be easy to implement. A few lines of code.

> 13) Are there going to be lots of comments in the hurd source code?

Have a look at the first code. There will also be a manual.

        There is a snapshot of the Hurd development tree on           
        "alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu" in the "/gnu" directory.  It is updated
        as significant changes are made, and not guaranteed to run.

> 18) Is hurd going to be able to be run on parallel processors,

Yes. It is based on Mach.

> 19) Which languages will be supported on hurd? C and C++
>     to start?

Everything gcc supports: C, C++, Objective-C. Other languages will be
ported to it as well.

> 20) Which hardware is being used most of the time when hurd
>     is being developed?

Intel hardware.

Hope this helps!
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 Martin Michlmayr | tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at | tbm@fvkma.tu-graz.ac.at
 GNU OpenStep Development Team, Manager of the Documentation Department
 http://fvkma.tu-graz.ac.at/gnustep/gnustep.html