[Fsf-friends] NEWS: Hurd/L4 Developer Marcus Brinkmann Interviewed

[Frederick Noronha (FN)]

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/19/1411219

Hurd/L4 Developer Marcus Brinkmann Interviewed
GNU is Not Unix | Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday March 19, @09:26AM
from the papa-on-brand-new-bag dept.
wikinerd writes "A few years ago when the GNU OS was almost complete, the 
kernel was the last missing piece, and most distributors combined GNU with the 
Linux kernel. But the GNU developers continued their efforts and unveiled the 
Hurd in 1990s, which is currently a functioning prototype. After the Mach 
microkernel was considered insufficient, some developers decided to start a new 
project porting the Hurd on the more advanced L4 microkernel using cutting-edge 
operating system design, thus creating the Hurd/L4. Last February one of the 
main developers, Marcus Brinkmann, completed the process initialization code 
and showed a screenshot of the first program executed on Hurd/L4 saying 'The 
dinner is prepared!' Now he has granted an interview about Hurd/L4, explaining 
the advantages of microkernels, the Hurd/L4 architecture, the project's goals 
and how he started the Debian port to Hurd."

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