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Xref: sserve comp.os.mach:3920 comp.os.386bsd.questions:10696 Newsgroups: comp.os.mach,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!KremlSun!gsp!news-service From: jlr@usoft.spb.su (John Lynn Roseman) Subject: UNIX functionality for the Hurd (Was: Re: Need good OS for intel X86 platform. LINUX!!!) X-Return-Path: gsp!usoft!jlr Organization: UrbanSoft AO (St-Petersburg) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 08:01:00 GMT Message-ID: <m0a1axZ-21s0xaD@usoft> Sender: news-service@arcom.rcom.spb.su Lines: 14 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? And what about the single server? That's a vital piece of UNIX functionality for the Hurd that relies on tainted BSD code. > There are no legal unknowns about the 4.4-Lite distribution, because > Novell blessed it appropriately. Novell blessed it months ago, but the BSD community has still not delivered a free single server.