🚀 go-pugleaf

sourada@iastate.edu (Steven D Ourada) writes:
>What are the problems that face the GNU project in making a free kernel? Is
>it difficult to reproduce the functionality without infringing on copyrights,
>etc. of AT&T and others? Is ultra-portability (obviously a goal of GNU 
>projects) very hard to achieve at such a low level? Has there been direct
>interference from parties who don't want to see a GNU kernel happen? 

I can't answer that (I have no affiliation with FSF) but I too am
utterly baffled by this one.  Writing a kernel capable of running
underneath the hundreds of thousands of lines of freely available
Berkeley and Gnu code, on a couple of given processors like the 386
and 680x0, doesn't seem like more than a few person-months worth of
work.  A kernel is, for example, far less complex than something like
gcc or emacs.  Len and other FSF folks, can you address this one in a
followup?

As for the latter point Steven raises, I don't think there's a conspiracy
against Gnu.  Indeed, the FSF has gotten a number of equipment donations
which should make such development relatively easy.

-rich