Re: GNU Hurd at Guix days

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

pjotr.public12@thebird.nl writes:

> We had a very interesting discussion about the Hurd. I ran the Hurd
> before, but now I am going down the rabbit hole of reading device
> drivers and such. It is very interesting. 
>
> I envisage a 'Cloud Hurd' that have minimal hardware demands and a
> Guix system definition.  Running a Guile webserver, for example, could
> be really, really tiny. ARM support and RISC-V support may come and
> that will make it even more exciting. Try and trim a Linux kernel to
> size and you know what I mean. Goblin nano services, anyone? Or an
> out-of-the-box mail service?
>
> It is not about performance, obviously, but about minimalism.
>
> I hit this paper online btw - a recent generic writeup:
>
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373235211_GNU_Hurd_Design_Implementation_and_Future_Prospects_of_the_Microkernel-Based_Operating_System

Thanks for sharing.   The document was a bit difficult to get with
Cloudfare checks in IceCat, and was also in the .docx format.  I've
produced a PDF with it with LibreOffice, attached for convenience.

FinalGNUHurdResearchPaper.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

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Thanks,
Maxim