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Xref: sserve comp.os.mach:3893 comp.os.386bsd.questions:10590 Newsgroups: comp.os.mach,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!news.duke.edu!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!news.spb.su!gsp!news-service From: jlr@usoft.spb.su (John Lynn Roseman) Subject: Re: Need good OS for intel X86 platform. LINUX!!! X-Return-Path: gsp!usoft!Tue Organization: UrbanSoft AO (St-Petersburg) Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 06:45:00 GMT Message-ID: <m0akklZ-213k7ha@usoft> Sender: news-service@arcom.rcom.spb.su Lines: 31 Robert Sanders (gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu) writes in <2s7vop@acmex.gatech.edu>: > magnus@haukugle.ii.uib.no (Magnus Y Alvestad) writes: >> Hurd is Mach-based. A lot of people are working on a Mach >> port of Linux. They could co-exist. > >They could, but there's not much reason to except for binary compatibility. Actually, binary compatibility is probably not an issue. The sources are almost always available, so it makes more sense to create native binaries. >Many of Linux's advantages -- speed, small size, hardware compatibility -- >would be lost when it's converted to a Mach server (or servers). The biggest advantages of Linux are its worldwide community of developers and users; and the Internet. Linux has a development team as dynamic, capable and diverse as any ever assembled. Moreover, Linux is the first OS to take full advantage of the resources of the Internet: comp.os.linux, the mailing lists and FTP sites. These are the advantages that the Hurd needs today. > The Hurd will probably be a superset of most everything's functionalty, > including the Hurd itself (eventually). But where will the UNIX functionality come from? All of the UNIX single servers for Mach (CMU, OSF, HUT) are based on BSD, and none of them are free. BSD is tainted by the use of AT&T source code at Berkeley and is subject to constant harassment by lawyers. And the BSD community today is in what might charitably be called a state of disarray.