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The GNU/Hurd architecture, nifty features, and latest news [pdf]

13 points by tailbalance 13y ago

rbanffy 13y ago
It's really nice to see an operating system that's based on some new ideas. I always say it's an embarrassment that the two most popular OSs today are a clone of Unix and the bastard child of VMS.
- abraham_s 13y ago
  I wonder what percentage of people will get the VMS reference.
  - smcnally 13y ago
    "Bastard child" as IBM is the father to the unwed MSFT?
    - rbanffy 13y ago
      That would be MVS.
      - abraham_s 13y ago
        The project leader of VMS, Dave Cutler went to MicroSoft and led the development of Windows NT. That is what I think the VMS reference is.
smcnally 13y ago
Is it ironic that this GNU/Hurd newsletter is published as PDF? Or is that format now considered sufficiently free?
- tailbalance 13y ago
  It is looks like a newsletter? It's FOSDEM presentation slides