Indeed. With 75% of Debian packages available, this should be enough to try it out. It's pretty amazing to have it somewhat usable nowadays, considering how lon

Indeed. With 75% of Debian packages available, this should be enough to try it out. It's pretty amazing to have it somewhat usable nowadays, considering how long it has taken. Looking at the wikipedia page, the project seems to have some focus issues, with people periodically starting to port Hurd to other microkernels and then stopping due to lack of time. It would be interesting to have a side-by-side comparison with other similar projects like Tannenbaum's own Minix 3.