GNU and Linux

[Francisco J. Gaztelua]

GNU has recently announced GNU 0.0, a kernel from GNU. I'm supposing
it will become a full operational OS in the future. If so, what role
can we expect it to play in the free Unices arena, and on Linux in
particular ? Will they compete ? Any comments ?

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Francisco Javier Gaztelua
gazt...@ctv.es
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[Arthur D. Jerijian]

In article <503o6n$l...@macarena.ctv.es>, Francisco J. Gaztelua wrote:
> GNU has recently announced GNU 0.0, a kernel from GNU. I'm supposing
>it will become a full operational OS in the future. If so, what role
>can we expect it to play in the free Unices arena, and on Linux in
>particular ? Will they compete ? Any comments ?

It might just be friendly competition, similar to the way that Linux
and FreeBSD are competing. It's said that the Hurd has a number
of design features that make it superior to UNIX-like systems, but I
haven't really researched the system that much. I'm hoping that the
userland code can greatly benefit from this project, where the same
sources (presumably the same GNU freeware that you and I use every
day) can compile and run without problems under both Linux and the
Hurd. In particular, I would love to see a merger of the Linux
NetKit-B and the GNU inetutils packages.

One thing that I don't want to see with the progress of the Hurd is
the loss of portability in the GNU software. I read the GNU coding
style and it had a comment where portability is a second priority
compared to having the code work under the Hurd.

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>Francisco Javier Gaztelua
>gazt...@ctv.es
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--Arthur