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-what are the advantages with the Hurd over Linux, in general of course, nothing
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-> Flexibility for the user:
-> 
-> transparent ftp
-> 
->     $ cd /ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian
->     $ ls
-> 
-> personnal filesystem
-> 
->     $ dd < /dev/zero > myspace.img bs=1M count=1024
->     $ mke2fs myspace.img
->     $ settrans myspace /hurd/ext2fs myspace.img
->     $ cd myspace
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->> Just curious, but I keep seeing these (and other similar) concepts being
->> brought up as the amazing selling points of the Hurd, but all of this is
->> entirely doable now in Linux with FUSE or things like it.
-
->>> Nowadays, at LAST, yes, partly.
-
->> I'm not sure if an ftp filesystem has been implemented for FUSE yet, but its
->> definately doable; and loopback filesystems like in your second example have
->> been supported for years.
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->>> As a normal user?  And establish a tap interface connected through ppp over
->>> ssh or whatever you could want to imagine?
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->>  What, then, are the major selling points or benefits?
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->>> These were just examples, Linux is trying to catch up in ugly ways indeed
->>> (yes, have a look at the details of fuse, it's deemed to be inefficient).
->>> In the Hurd, it's that way from the _ground_ and there is no limitation
->>> like having to be root or ask for root to add magic lines, etc.