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| author | Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> | 2008-11-02 14:44:05 +0100 |
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| committer | Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> | 2008-11-02 14:44:05 +0100 |
| commit | ccdefb56eb592b51f008560aa8097c03c4805882 (patch) | |
| tree | e9acea86eb61db6b3955345588b892df94525081 /community/weblogs/ArneBab/niches_for_the_hurd.mdwn | |
| parent | ee3c1d2bb5a9b7d58562f1bcfd496935fac89d51 (diff) | |
weblog: niches: Added quotation marks around quotiations.
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diff --git a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/niches_for_the_hurd.mdwn b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/niches_for_the_hurd.mdwn index 84e3f1c6..ecfcc4c8 100644 --- a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/niches_for_the_hurd.mdwn +++ b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/niches_for_the_hurd.mdwn @@ -59,11 +59,11 @@ Also it would be possible to just open an account for stuff like joining the #### Easier access to low-level functions -One important use is for very technical people, who don't always go with +*"One important use is for very technical people, who don't always go with standard solutions, but rather use new approaches to best solve their -problems, and will often find traditional kernels too limiting. +problems, and will often find traditional kernels too limiting."* -Another interesting aspect is application development: With the easily +*"Another interesting aspect is application development: With the easily customized/extended system functionality, and the ability to contain such customizations in subenvironments, I believe that Hurd offers a good platform for much more efficient development of complex @@ -71,12 +71,12 @@ applications. Application developers can just introduce the desired mechanisms on a very low level, instead of building around existing abstractions. The extensible filesystem in particular seems extremely helpful as a powerful, intuitive and transparent communication -mechanism, which allows creating truly modular applications. +mechanism, which allows creating truly modular applications."* #### Advanced lightweight virtualization -There is also the whole area I called "advanced lightweight +*"There is also the whole area I called "advanced lightweight virtualization" (see http://tri-ceps.blogspot.com/2007/10/advanced-lightweight-virtualization.html ), i.e. the ability to create various kinds of interesting @@ -87,11 +87,11 @@ isolation through containers or VMs, are quite unique. This could simplify management of demanding applications for example, by partially isolating them from other applications and the main system, and thus reducing incompatibilities. Creating lightweight software appliances -sounds like an interesting option. +sounds like an interesting option.*" #### The possibility to create more efficient and powerful desktop environments -While I believe this can be applied to any kind of applications, I'm +*"While I believe this can be applied to any kind of applications, I'm personally most interested in more efficient and powerful desktop environments -- these considerations are in fact what got me seriously interested in the Hurd. @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ some of my thoughts on this: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20080909073154.GB821%40alien.local (Just skip the text mode browsing stuff -- the relevant part is the long -monologue at the end... I really should put these ideas into my blog.) +monologue at the end... I really should put these ideas into my blog.)"* |