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 The idea of using [[microkernel/L4]] as a [[microkernel]] for a
 [[Hurd_system|hurd]] was initially voiced in the [[Hurd_community|community]]
-by Okuji Yoshinori.  He created the *[[mailing_lists/l4-hurd]]* mailing list in
+by Okuji Yoshinori.  He created the [[mailing_lists/l4-hurd]] mailing list in
 November 2000.  It does not appear that he got any further than simply
 suggesting it as an alternative to [[microkernel/Mach]] and doing some reading.
 
-[[NealWalfield]] started the original Hurd/L4 port while at Karlsruhe in 2002.
+Neal Walfield started the original Hurd/L4 port while at Karlsruhe in 2002.
 He explains:
 
 > My intention was to adapt the Hurd to exploit L4's concepts and intended
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ He explains:
 > half of 2004, after I complete by Bachelors degree.
 
 > Before Marcus and I considered [[microkernel/Coyotos]], we had already
-> rejected some parts of the Hurd's design.  The resource management problems
+> rejected some parts of the Hurd's design.  The [[resource_management_problems]]
 > were what prompted me to look at L4.  Also, some of the problems with
 > [[translator]]s were already well-known to us.  (For a more detailed
 > description of the problems we have identified, see our [[critique]] in the
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ He explains:
 > aligned our position with that of Jonathan's.  This was particularly true of
 > a number of security issues.
 
+A lange number of discussion threads can be found in the archives of the
+[[mailing_lists/l4-hurd]] mailing list.
+
 > Hurd-NG, as we originally called it, was an attempt to articulate the system
 > that we had come to envision in terms of interfaces and description of the
 > system's structure.  The new name was selected, if I recall correctly, as it
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+[[microkernel/Mach]] interfaces do not allow for proper resource accounting,
+when a server allocates resources on behalf of a client.
+
+Mach can't do a good job at resource management, as it doesn't have enough
+information how resources are used: which data is important and which is
+discardable, for example.
+
+These issues are what Neal Walfield is working on with his new kernel
+[[microkernel/viengoos]].