Star Network Transparency and the Multi-Root Filesystem
Linked by Will Varfar on Tue 3rd Aug 2004 05:32 UTC
Internet & Networking This article offers feature suggestions to budding OS developers looking for that neat edge.
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re: Hurd
by Tom Dison on Tue 3rd Aug 2004 15:06 UTC

I've heard of Hurd but there ain't a herd of Hurd out there being used. Go Microkernels! Go away Monolithic kernels. Why should my kernel have a video driver in it? Yes, the file-acess-layer running on top of my kernel (is this what you mean by OS, Tonto?) should abstract the details of file-systems. A more classic example of this is the CD-ROM. Remeber when programs had to be "multimedia aware" to access files on a CR-ROM drive? Now, let's all get to work on that Google filesystem so I can use my 1GB on my lowly laptop.