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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 7th Nov 2009 14:33 UTC, submitted by J!NX

Debian GNU/Hurd can now be installed a little easier. "This month Philip Charles created a new installation CD, the L series, for the Hurd, which brings us a big step towards installing the Hurd from the Hurd (without the need of a Linux-based installer). If you enjoy testing stuff, please give it a try."

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RE: This is cool.

by vivainio on Sat 7th Nov 2009 21:10 UTC in reply to "This is cool."

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2008-12-26

Just out of curiosity, have any basic performance tests been done against the kernel/operating system? How does hurd compare to linux or any of the BSD kernels?

Microkernel is necessarily slower than a monolithic kernel (unless the monolithic one is very badly done, of course).

OTOH, the cleaner architecture and modularity of microkernel affords for much faster development speed, as proven by hurd, minix and friends.

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RE[2]: This is cool.

by Delgarde on Sun 8th Nov 2009 09:33 in reply to "RE: This is cool."

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2008-08-19

OTOH, the cleaner architecture and modularity of microkernel affords for much faster development speed, as proven by hurd...

Did you manage to keep a straight face while typing that?

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RE[3]: This is cool.

by vivainio on Sun 8th Nov 2009 11:22 in reply to "RE[2]: This is cool."

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Did you manage to keep a straight face while typing that?

I did alright ;-).

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RE[2]: This is cool.

by tylerdurden on Sun 8th Nov 2009 22:14 in reply to "RE: This is cool."

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2009-03-17

NT, OSX, and QNX say "what's up"

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RE[3]: This is cool.

by vivainio on Sun 8th Nov 2009 23:03 in reply to "RE[2]: This is cool."

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NT, OSX, and QNX say "what's up"

NT and OSX aren't microkernels. E.g. read http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MicroKernel (yes, there are more authoritary links, but who has time for that?).

QNX might be, though.

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