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As it stands, the Hurd consists of file servers on top of Mach called translators, which provide OS services. It's a rustier version of what Plan 9 achieves via
by vezzy-fnord 12y ago
As it stands, the Hurd consists of file servers on top of Mach called translators, which provide OS services. It's a rustier version of what Plan 9 achieves via the 9P protocol.
By academic standards the design is uninteresting and perhaps outdated, though if it had actually flourished in the 90s as it was intended, the use of a multiserver microkernel in a mainstream OS would have been quite the achievement back then.
- robgibbons 12y agoThanks vezzy... Very interesting reading about multiserver microkernels. I also found the following articles on the Hurd website very informative: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/advantages.html https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/advantages.html https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/weblogs/ArneBab/technical-advantages-of-the-hurd.html https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/weblogs/ArneBab/...