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I gave up on Hurd back in the late 1980s. I'm not kidding. Before it was even called Hurd. I had heard for several years that GNU was going to make their own
by nika 16y ago
I gave up on Hurd back in the late 1980s. I'm not kidding. Before it was even called Hurd. I had heard for several years that GNU was going to make their own kernel. Eventually I gave up and stopped hoping for a release.
- GeoffWozniak 16y agoI think of it as GNU/Xanadu. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
- InclinedPlane 16y agoHurd/Linux and Xanadu/WWW are classic examples of worse is better, minimum viable products, and perfection being an enemy of goodness. Imagine what kind of world we would be in today if we had had to wait for Hurd and Xanadu? Shipping is always a feature, and sometimes perfection at the cost of depriving the world of goodness is just the vice of excessive pride dressed up in other clothes.