Re: about GNU Hurd

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   Hi,

   On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:05:48PM -0600, Michael Heath wrote:

   > I think the problem people face is: Why work on something that is
   > already fundamentally obsolete or bad?

   It is not any more fundamentally obsolete or bad than most other
   software out there.

   We *know* that there are some fundamental issues with the current
   implementation. We *know* for example that performance will never quite
   match modern monolithic systems; that there are problems that can not be
   fully solved within the current design.

This depends on what issues you are refering to.  The two
(semi-serious) problems that Marcus pointed out wrt to passive
translators and firmlinks can be solved.  As was pointed out by
Bushenell, and someone else.