zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/20110308/003926.html


1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
 <HEAD>
   <TITLE> [Mageia-discuss] Linux is a KERNEL not an OS
   </TITLE>
   <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" >
   <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20Linux%20is%20a%20KERNEL%20not%20an%20OS&In-Reply-To=%3CAANLkTintXRJ-CxXeT0ZkRrc7aHpsOeBQqor9_eZtKmg6%40mail.gmail.com%3E">
   <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow">
   <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
   <LINK REL="Previous"  HREF="003925.html">
   <LINK REL="Next"  HREF="003927.html">
 </HEAD>
 <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Linux is a KERNEL not an OS</H1>
    <B>Thierry Vignaud</B> 
    <A HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20Linux%20is%20a%20KERNEL%20not%20an%20OS&In-Reply-To=%3CAANLkTintXRJ-CxXeT0ZkRrc7aHpsOeBQqor9_eZtKmg6%40mail.gmail.com%3E"
       TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] Linux is a KERNEL not an OS">thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
       </A><BR>
    <I>Tue Mar  8 14:24:36 CET 2011</I>
    <P><UL>
        <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="003925.html">[Mageia-discuss] Linux is a KERNEL not an OS
</A></li>
        <LI>Next message: <A HREF="003927.html">[Mageia-discuss] Looking for volunteer for french events
</A></li>
         <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> 
              <a href="date.html#3926">[ date ]</a>
              <a href="thread.html#3926">[ thread ]</a>
              <a href="subject.html#3926">[ subject ]</a>
              <a href="author.html#3926">[ author ]</a>
         </LI>
       </UL>
    <HR>  
<!--beginarticle-->
<PRE>On 3 March 2011 22:10, Hoyt Duff &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">hoytduff at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:
&gt;&gt;<i> we should not forget that GNU had also tried to make a kernel of itself...
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> which was a total failure.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> The Mach microkernel
</I>&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/microkernel/mach.html">http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/microkernel/mach.html</A>
</I>&gt;<i> is used by the GNU Hurd
</I>&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html">http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html</A>
</I>&gt;<i> with even a Debian version of it
</I>&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/debian.html">http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/debian.html</A>
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> So, not a total failure. Just not wildly popular or widely supported.
</I>
Come on...
Nearly no drivers but those of linux-2.0 (aka 10 years ago...)
Yes it can runs.
But slow. And better in a VM than on real modern bare metal.
...

&gt;<i> Please avoid asking for Hurd-powered Mageia. 8)
</I>
Well I wouldn't be against that :-)
</PRE>


<!--endarticle-->
    <HR>
    <P><UL>
        <!--threads-->
	<LI>Previous message: <A HREF="003925.html">[Mageia-discuss] Linux is a KERNEL not an OS
</A></li>
	<LI>Next message: <A HREF="003927.html">[Mageia-discuss] Looking for volunteer for french events
</A></li>
         <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> 
              <a href="date.html#3926">[ date ]</a>
              <a href="thread.html#3926">[ thread ]</a>
              <a href="subject.html#3926">[ subject ]</a>
              <a href="author.html#3926">[ author ]</a>
         </LI>
       </UL>

<hr>
<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss
mailing list</a><br>
</body></html>