"M E Leypold @ labnet" leypold@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de writes:
The funny thing is that the Hurd isn't a kernel and lives completely in user-space. :)
Hardly.
The Hurd itself lives indeed entirely in userspace. "The Hurd" means only those servers running on _top_ of the (micro)-kernel. Sure, without a kernel, on which the Hurd could run on, it wouldn't be of much use. moritz