Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-)

[Bas Wijnen]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:19:51PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    >    Furthermore, doesn't really explain why GNU/Linux is not
>    >    sufficient.
>    >
>    > Because the goal of the GNU project is to create the GNU system,
>    > which doesn't use Linux as its kernel.
> 
>    Is it?
> 
> Yes, lots of work has been done on the Hurd, it would be silly to
> throw that away.

If the only reason for keeping it is that it took a lot of work to make it,
then let's please junk the crap.

I don't think we should junk it.  Because I think there is a better reason:
The stuff is actually better than Linux, and can be used in an even better
design.  This is not true for all of it (auth for example may be completely
discarded, we'll see), but I think large parts of the current system will be
ported to the new system with little or no change to their code.

But the reason we're keeping it is that it's good, not that it's bad to throw
things away.

Thanks,
Bas

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