From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) Subject: Re: Networking 2 release, BSDI, etc Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1992 07:50:51 GMT
In article <1992Feb29.204246.11566@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu> cs318a52@ibmb5.cs.uiuc.edu (Mark Lanett) writes:
>jim@ferkel.ucsb.edu (Jim Lick) writes:
>>The other future development is the Gnu OS based on their 'Hurd'
>>kernel. No telling when this will be out though.
>Actually, the "GNU OS" will be a gnu filesystem (HURD) running on Mach
>(the unix successor being developed by CMU).
Actually, the GNU Hurd is neither a kernel, nor just a filesystem. It
is a Hird of Unix Replacing Daemons (among other things) that include a
filesystem, ttys, and exec, proc, and authorization servers that the
Mach kernel does not provide itself. Mach is by itself just a nifty
little kernel and doesn't provide much of the functionality needed for
modern unix operating systems.
See ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu for the GNU Hurd sources.