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Re: HURDNG : Which type of OS design could we have to thinknowadays ?
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Nigel Williams |
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Re: HURDNG : Which type of OS design could we have to thinknowadays ? |
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Mon, 7 Aug 2006 10:43:52 -0600 |
"Neal H. Walfield" <address@hidden> wrote in message
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> On the other hand, you completely devalue legacy support. I think
> this is the hardest problem and central to the adoption of new
> systems.
With hurdNg and coyotos I would gladly see legacy support de-valued (even
jettisoned), I feel it is over-rated. I would rather see the useful legacy
tools re-implemented for a new OS which offered new environments (as
happened with UNIX and Macintosh, neither provided legacy support in the
initial implementations). Attempting to maintain legacy support almost
de-railed Windows Vista. Legacy support via virtualization (and data
exchange via open-formats) seems a less exhausting approach.
> In short, I think you need to define some goals, consider their
> implications (in particular, what things are less important) and then
> think about how these new techniques that you've pointed to will
> facilitate those goals.
A goal to support widespread adoption (at least within a niche) I would like
to see fulfilled, once hurd.L4 or coyotos can host services, is for a
scalable web-server implementation which offered an application environment
comparable (preferably better) to ASP or PHP. A verifiably secure web-server
would quickly supplant IIS and Apache and permit people to return to sharing
their digital artifacts with a credible degree of confidence.
nigwil
- Can we really think at a new OS design nowadays ?, Guillaume FORTAINE, 2006/08/05
- Re: Can we really think at a new OS design nowadays ?, Benno, 2006/08/05
- Re: Can we really think at a new OS design nowadays ?, Neal H. Walfield, 2006/08/06
- HURDNG : Which type of OS design could we have to think nowadays ?, Guillaume FORTAINE, 2006/08/06
- Re: HURDNG : Which type of OS design could we have to think nowadays ?, Neal H. Walfield, 2006/08/07
- Re: HURDNG : Which type of OS design could we have to think nowadays ?, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/08/07
- Re: HURDNG : Which type of OS design could we have to think nowadays ?, Guillaume FORTAINE, 2006/08/07
- Re: HURDNG : Which type of OS design could we have to think nowadays ?, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/08/07
- Re: HURDNG : Which type of OS design could we have to thinknowadays ?,
Nigel Williams <=
- Re: HURDNG : Which type of OS design could we have to thinknowadays ?, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/08/07
- Re: HURDNG : Which type of OS design could we have to thinknowadays ?, Nigel Williams, 2006/08/07
- Re: HURDNG : Which type of OS design could we have to think nowadays ?, Ernst Rohlicek jun., 2006/08/07
- Re: HURDNG : Which type of OS design could we have to think nowadays ?, Marcus Brinkmann, 2006/08/08
- Re: HURDNG : Which type of OS design could we have to think nowadays ?, Ernst Rohlicek jun., 2006/08/11
- Re: HURDNG : Which type of OS design could we have to think nowadays ?, Marcus Brinkmann, 2006/08/11
- Re: HURDNG : Which type of OS design could we have to think nowadays ?, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/08/12
- Re: HURDNG : Which type of OS design could we have to think nowadays ?, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/08/12
Re: Can we really think at a new OS design nowadays ?, Benno, 2006/08/05