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RMS never actually made HERD. Terry actually has an OS.

• gh02t 12y ago
  HURD is functional, it's just not really used by anything or anybody, so it's missing a lot of features. It's also to some degree rotting, last I checked it still was limited to i386. But HURD distros do exist in variants like Debian HURD, albeit maintained by skeleton crews. Point I am getting at is that it was made, it just was poorly timed. By the time it was semi-working, Linux was already entrenched. HURD couldn't collect momentum to really find a bigger niche.
  • tedks 12y ago
    HURD is pretty actively maintained, I don't think it's rotting. Microkernel research just keeps outpacing their ability to implement so they've switched base kernels like 4 times now.
  • e12e 12y ago
    I've not actually tried it, but I think the Debian HURD port got new wind a while back -- there are some references on the Debian/kfreebsd mailinglist that seem to indicate that some people are actually working on stuff on the HURD side (the former is a project to bring Debian "userland"/distro to the HURD kernel, the latter is the same for running Debian with a freebsd kernel (as opposed to a linux or solaris (see [ed:Nexenta, not Illumous as that is more of an Ubuntu/Solaris-thing] etc) one). https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/ https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/