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>It is arguable that in the sort of narrow, specific sense that Stallman himself tends to favor, the GNU Project failed. There isn't a complete, working GNU OS.
by bunabhucan 3y ago
>It is arguable that in the sort of narrow, specific sense that Stallman himself tends to favor, the GNU Project failed. There isn't a complete, working GNU OS. An operating system is a stack of components, from the visible user-facing stuff to the kernel, and the GNU kernel, the also recursively named Hurd, is still incomplete and not ready for daily use, even after all this time.
- fatfingerd 3y agoWhile true I think this shows the discounting of real labor costs in OSes.. If Hurd were magically granted every possible resource to be complete and on par with everything else in 1993 it would have needed far more resources in the last 30 years to still be a complete OS today, since it wasn't complete it is very hard for it to get even a small portion of those resources.