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Glad to know I'm unaffected since all my machines run openrc and herd.

• CrazyPyroLinux 6y ago
  I'm skeptical since you spelled it "herd" (or maybe auto-correct strikes again.) But yeah, keeping your system free from the systemd cancer has always been a good idea.
  • nitrogen 6y ago
    Maybe "herd" is an actual tool, separate from Hurd? Or "and herd" here is equivalent to "et al?" Impossible to search for though.
    • jjgreen 6y ago
      et armenta ?
    • m463 6y ago
      Hurd/Hird you mean :) In December 1991 the primary architect of the Hurd described the name as a mutually recursive acronym: It's time [to] explain the meaning of "Hurd". "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons". And, then, "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth". We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms. - Thomas (then Michael) Bushnell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd#Name_and_logo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd#Name_and_logo
    • brendyn 6y ago
      What deelowe said. Shepherd's cli tool is herd. For example you can run sudo herd status. In practice it means they are running GNU Guix
  • deelowe 6y ago
    Pretty sure they are referring to herd and shepherd: https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/manual/html_node/herd-and-shepherd.html https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/manual/html_node/herd-...
    • CrazyPyroLinux 6y ago
      Ooh, thanks! I hadn't ever heard of that, and was for some reason assuming "Hurd" kernel. I'll give it a try.