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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Gaël Le Mignot" <kilobug@freesurf.fr>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@work.bitmover.com>,
	Christian Reichert <c.reichert@resolution.de>,
	John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>,
	lkml@lrsehosting.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	lm@bitmover.com, rms@gnu.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Subject: Re: [OT] HURD vs Linux/HURD
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 15:42:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030719224220.GA1950@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <plopm3he5i8l4h.fsf@drizzt.kilobug.org>

On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 07:46:54PM +0200, Gaël Le Mignot wrote:
>  > Drivers and networking account for about 50% of the total lines of code.
>  > The bulk of the work in any operating system is typically drivers.  The
>  > generic part of Linux (non-driver, non-file system) is tiny compared to 
>  > the rest.
> 
> Maybe  for  you,  an  OS  is  drivers.  For  me,  it's  a  design,  an
> architecture, a  philosophy, and a way  to defend a value  that is not
> important for you: Freedom.

Heh, let's see how well your OS works in the real world without those
drivers :)

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-19 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-19 15:03 [OT] HURD vs Linux/HURD John Bradford
2003-07-19 15:02 ` Christian Reichert
2003-07-19 17:09   ` Gaël Le Mignot
2003-07-19 17:23     ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-19 17:46       ` Gaël Le Mignot
2003-07-19 18:12         ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-19 18:41           ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-19 18:45             ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-19 20:07               ` Gaël Le Mignot
2003-07-19 20:05           ` Gaël Le Mignot
2003-07-19 20:28             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-07-19 22:03             ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-19 22:23               ` Alan Cox
2003-07-19 22:33               ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-20  6:35                 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-19 18:58         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-19 22:42         ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-07-19 15:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-19 15:16 ` Linux Kernel Mailing List
2003-07-20  6:32   ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-20  0:07 ` Theodore Ts'o
2003-07-20 13:23   ` Charles E. Youse
2003-07-20 13:41     ` David Lloyd
2003-07-20 14:09     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-20 15:27       ` Brian McGroarty
2003-07-22  4:52     ` Miles Bader
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-20 17:24 John Bradford
2003-07-20 13:49 John Bradford
2003-07-20 16:59 ` Horst von Brand
2003-07-19 10:33 Bitkeeper John Bradford
2003-07-19 14:00 ` [OT] HURD vs Linux/HURD Linux Kernel Mailing List

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