Re: Hurd/L4 as a class project

[Doug Jones]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    It's relatively inaccessible _to me_.  I do understand enough about
>    the Hurd to see the value of the thing, but gazing at its internals
>    makes my head hurt.
>
> And this prevents you from hacking on other parts without bothering
> about the internals how exactly?
>
>    Can we stop now?
>
> Sorry, but I really can't, I hate this thread more then you, but it
> tends to come up once or twice a year, and I'm quite sick and tired of
> it.  I atleast want to figure out what the "problem" is, so that a
> solution can be crafted.

Well we all have different problems...  If you ask other people what the 
"problem" is, you might get a lot of different answers, perhaps 
including answers that neither one of us would find reasonable.


For me, mainly, time.  Currently I spend about ten minutes a day 
skimming various Hurd lists.  Regrettably, that's about all the time I 
can afford for the Hurd at this point in my life.  Maybe that will 
change someday.

I spent quite a bit more than that today, but that's not likely to 
happen again soon.  Oh well.