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Are there any decent postmortems of Hurd? Not to imply that it's dead. In retrospect, what was a good idea, what was a bad idea, and what are the main architect
by Qwertious 11y ago
Are there any decent postmortems of Hurd? Not to imply that it's dead. In retrospect, what was a good idea, what was a bad idea, and what are the main architectural weaknesses of the kernel as it stands today?
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoThere's "the critique", as it's called: http://walfield.org/papers/200707-walfield-critique-of-the-GNU-Hurd.pdf http://walfield.org/papers/200707-walfield-critique-of-the-G... The paper was written in response to the porting effort of the Hurd away from Mach to L4, and realizing the latter didn't pan out well for object-capability systems. Same people later wrote an experimental microkernel specifically for the Hurd called Viengoos, but that too fizzled out.