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They don't make this easy: quote: Also note that you cannot run the Hurd "in isolation": you'll need to add further components such as the GNU Mach microkerne
by acomjean 12y ago
They don't make this easy:
quote: Also note that you cannot run the Hurd "in isolation": you'll need to add further components such as the GNU Mach microkernel and the GNU C Library (glibc), to turn it into a runnable system.
Of course making it easy is a ton of work.
If they want to gain some traction maybe they should work on a version of the OS in Rust. That would be interesting. glibRust.
- chriswarbo 12y agoTo be fair, Linux isn't "easy" without a bootloader and an init program to run. HURD is a little less "easy" since unlike Linux it's not a runnable kernel, it's a layer on top of the Mach (micro)kernel. Of course, in practice it's a distro's job to make things easy. There's a version of Debian running HURD, but I don't know how up-to-date it is: https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/ https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/