What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?

[Gil Pilz@Eng@Banyan]

In article <8380 at june.cs.washington.edu> ka at june.cs.washington.edu (Kenneth Almquist) writes:
>James Buster asks what kinds of things should be in th GNU kernel:
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>> Networking:	NFS? RFS? Something better?
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>Something better.  I would like to see a distributed file system along
>the lines of the Sprite file system or the Apollo Domain file system.

How about coming down to earth a little bit here ?  What's the point
of anyone having a GNU system in the first place ? Are you really
looking for the hottest Unix derivative on the planet ? No, you just
want a decent Unix system that's FREE. Free to obtain, free to
distribute, free to play with. I think spending a lot of effort trying
to keep up with or shoot ahead of the latest & greatest is a mistake.
How many people does the FSF have anyway ?

What's wrong with taking MACH, maybe changing it a little just to feel
good about it, and putting it out ? (note I have not the foggiest
idead of the state of relations between the MACH people and the FSF)

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