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Not trying to sound snarky here: does _anything_ use Hurd?
by brirec 7y ago
Not trying to sound snarky here: does _anything_ use Hurd?
- danudey 7y agoIt's "supported" by some people, but it's not ready for prime time, and never will be.
- brirec 7y agoI can't help but laugh at the irony that one of the most popular and most proprietary operating systems in the world uses a forked Mach kernel called XNU, for "X's Not Unix." Anyone at Apple have a beef with the FSF back when they named that?
- MayeulC 7y agoWell, there's that (former?) Debian project, an Arch variant as well, and I think there is a GUIX variant as well[1]. But they still share the same limitations: 32 bits, no USB, etc. Hurd itself has interesting concepts, like translators. And it might be useful in some specific cases where robustness is needed. But you might as well try MINIX 3. Hurd is on my list of things to try, just like Plan 9. [1] (edit): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd#GNU_distributions_running_Hurd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd#GNU_distributions_run...