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Duke Nukem forever... Samba 4.0... what's the next? A GNU/Hurd competitor to Ubuntu? Space travels to Pluto? Time machines?
by josemariaruiz 14y ago
Duke Nukem forever... Samba 4.0... what's the next? A GNU/Hurd competitor to Ubuntu? Space travels to Pluto? Time machines?
- jf 14y ago> A GNU/Hurd competitor to Ubuntu? Well, there is this: http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/ http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/
- josemariaruiz 14y ago"Get Xorg + gnome/kde/xfce (xfce should work, kde is missing working dbus (due to local socket auth and bugs in select() cornercases)) + some webbrowser working (iceweasel 9 works, though not https)." From GNU/Hurd TODO list :)
- pyre 14y agobugs in select() cornercases is the thing that stands out to me. Seems like I would want select() to be pretty solid to consider this a viable alternative.
- duskwuff 14y agoHURD can largely be regarded as a cruel joke. It's been under development for over twenty years (since 1990!) without yet producing a usable product. Pretty much every operating system kernel that's in use today (Linux, the BSD family, Windows NT, and XNU) is younger than HURD, and yet far more mature.
- papsosouid 14y agoIf you are measuring the current hurd kernel's age as starting from 1990, then the BSD kernels are far older, not younger. The initial release was in 1977, and obviously development started before that. That said, hurd is essentially abandoned at this point. Even RMS has accepted that it will never be completed, and has said that it really doesn't matter since there's already a free kernel available (linux).
- yuhong 14y agoEven MS took years to finish Windows 2000 with Active Directory.
- fafner 14y agoe17 is next: https://e17releasemanager.wordpress.com/ https://e17releasemanager.wordpress.com/