FUSE is less general, as it only allows implementation of filesystem drivers. HURD translators should allow implementation of almost arbitrary drivers in users

FUSE is less general, as it only allows implementation of filesystem drivers. HURD translators should allow implementation of almost arbitrary drivers in userspace (such as device drivers or network stacks). HURD is a micro-kernel so almost everything that traditionally lives in the kernel on Linux systems would be implemented as a translator in a HURD system (apart from very low-level virtual memory and CPU management).