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Well, GNU has traditionally been awful at systems programming. They worked for more than a decade on the HURD kernel even after gcc and coreutils were long comp
by kunai 13y ago
Well, GNU has traditionally been awful at systems programming. They worked for more than a decade on the HURD kernel even after gcc and coreutils were long completed. Eventually, Linus got tired of waiting and created his own operating system using the GNU utils (I so wished he had used the 386BSD tools instead), and HURD pretty much just went away.
The mailing lists are full of spam and progress is at a crawl. It's awful. If you want progress, just use Linux.
- jsymolon 13y ago> (I so wished he had used the 386BSD tools instead), I'm curious to the difference between the two. Do you have an example ?
- EdiX 13y agoThey are a smaller code base, commands take less options, do less things. It's closer to the original UNIX userland. A minority of people prefers this characteristics, history suggests that the majority just enjoys the added features: the GNU userland was widespread before Linux existed, people today install (parts of) the GNU userland on Mac OS X using fink/macports/homebrew.
- dllthomas 13y ago"(I so wished he had used the 386BSD tools instead)" My understanding of the timeline is that 386BSD was not available when Linus started work.