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If the Wednesday's program was rather relaxed, on the second day most
of the topics got actually started. I decided to follow the Debian
topic which devoted Thursday to Hurd, a microkernel based
approach to OS design in which most of the Unix system services run as
separate user processes. Neal Walfield told us that at the moment the
GNU/Hurd system is already usable but some features and a lot of
optimization still needs to be done. Perhaps the Linux kernel will be
replaced by Hurd or a combination some day in the future - the drivers
written for Linux can be used almost directly in Hurd, for example.
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Richard Stallman drew some illustrations how Hurd differs from other
common operating systems. He also presented ideas of what kind of
applications and features the new model makes possible or easier to
implement.
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Everybody liked Richard's cute GNU mascot.
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Other topics also presented on Thursday were databases, libre
software for the blind, graphics, security, filesystems, medecine and
education. The education topic differed from other so that it had a
lot of talks and demos aimed for the public, not the technically
oriented people attending the conference itself. The public talks were
given in a separate building, also gathering an excited audience.
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For the evening the organizers had reserved a whole restaurant so
that all the attendees could go and have dinner together. We started
with an aperitif in the garden.
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Olivier Berger amazed everyone by bringing a hand-painted "GNU &
Linux - the dynamic duo" poster, originally obtained by the APRIL organization a few months earlier.
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This is only about half of the people enjoying the delicious meal: the
restaurant was full and discussion lively.
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A moment to be remembered: The Free
Software Song together. Tony Bassette leading the group.
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Copyright Arto Teräs
<ajt@iki.fi> 2000.
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Last update 15.7.2000
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