GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" with x86_64, SMP and ~75% of Debian Packages Building
53 points by sergiogdr
by taylodl
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This headline was pretty much true 5 years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago...
Don't get me wrong, I think Hurd is interesting, but I seriously doubt it's going to have a big impact on anything as it reflects the software engineering philosophies of the 1980s.
While I laughed at the headline, it also fondly reminds me of reading Slashdot in the late 90s-early 00s, back before the Internet and programming and computers had all gone to shit.
Good luck guys. At least working on this for decades is less damaging to the world than anything people do at Google and Facebook.
by zeruch
0 subcomment
Hurd is long past ever being anything but a pet project of RMS and his familiars.
by jethronethro
0 subcomment
Please let me know what it is "there". Then I'll start caring. Until then ...
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