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It's non-started like openbsd thenIt's non-started like openbsd thenPosted Jul 21, 2009 7:22 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Hurd facts (was: Patent threats?!) by antrik Parent article: Microsoft contributes Hyper-V drivers to the kernel
Nobody in his right mind would seriously expect the Hurd to become "competitive" with Linux in terms of performance, hardware support etc. Why the hell not? It is quite realistic though to become *good enough*, so that interested people can use it without problems, if they are willing to forsake a little performance etc. in favor of other properties. If we are talking about "a little performace etc" it means the thing is competive. Being competive does not mean "being better by all metrics". It means "being better in some areas while not too much worse in other ones". A lot of people are ready to concede 10% for better security or flexibility, for example, but very few are ready to get 10x slowdown... Heck - that's why we've switched from a.out to elf many years ago! Some might prefer it because of the GPLv3 option. Microsoft works on that but then it's hard even for Microsoft...
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