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Xref: sserve comp.os.mach:3906 comp.os.386bsd.questions:10662 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mib From: mib@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) Newsgroups: comp.os.mach,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: UNIX functionality for the Hurd (Was: Re: Need good OS for intel X86 platform. LINUX!!!) Date: 01 Jun 1994 22:01:05 GMT Organization: Free Software Foundation, Cambridge, MA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <MIB.94Jun1180107@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <m0a1axZ-21s0xaD@usoft> NNTP-Posting-Host: churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: jlr@usoft.spb.su's message of Wed, 1 Jun 1994 08:01:00 GMT In article <m0a1axZ-21s0xaD@usoft> jlr@usoft.spb.su (John Lynn Roseman) writes: mib@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes in <MIB.94May31121730@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu>: > The Unix functionality comes from many places. There is relatively > little code from BSD. How much Hurd code comes from Linux? None. And what about the single server? That's a vital piece of UNIX functionality for the Hurd that relies on tainted BSD code. We don't have a single server at all. -- +1 617 623 3248 (H) | The soul of Jonathan was bound to the soul of David, +1 617 253 8568 (W) -+- and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. 1105 Broadway | Then Jonathan made a covenant with David Somerville, MA 02144 | because he loved him as his own soul.