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Neal Walfield calls !GNU !Hurd a "Multi-server Operating System" this, of course, is incorrect. Hurd is a micro-kernel. http://is.gd/eNhnb
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@jacobwb nope, he is correct ;-)
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@bleakgadfly Actually, GNU Mach is a micro-kernel (only the very basic kernel functions) and GNU Hurd is a set of servers that run on top.
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@bleakgadfly Both !GNU Mach and GNU !Hurd are useless by themselves. Actually quite useless put together as well without other GNU software.
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@jacobwb you can port Hurd (set of servers) to another kernel, fpr example linux.
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@anatolyka GNU Hurd's servers are already implemented in Linux, but this doesn't make any difference. Linux is also not an operating system.
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@jacobwb, hm, yes, it's not OS
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@stimpyjcat I guess is not, :) http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news.html
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@jacobwb so said Linus: “a kernel by itself gets you nowhere [...] Most of the tools used with linux are GNU software” http://ur1.ca/uqvj
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@stimpyjcat watch Neal Walfield at http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2010/denhaag/
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@jacobwb You're very confusing,GNU+Hurd would be an OS: GNU includes the "GNU Mach" microkernel and userspace, and Hurd are multiple servers
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@bleakgadfly @stimpyjcat the problems is how you both understand "dead". Which criterias do you use for it?
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@bleakgadfly If you want to see what happens in the !Hurd, just look at its website :) → http://hurd.gnu.org ⇒ monthly news.
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@bleakgadfly @stimpyjcat the main problem of the hurd is lack of manpower and no more. Wish to feel it as not dead -give your own time to it
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@bleakgadfly @stimpyjcat anything else is not "relative" for Hurd
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@stimpyjcat hm, maybe my wording was wrong. Spreading correct info about Hurd via microblogging (or anything else) is a good job for Hurd
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@bleakgadfly project Hurd has never declared an end of its development
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@bleakgadfly glad to :)
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@bleakgadfly port mach to it :-)
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@bleakgadfly Pfft you can learn C and Assember in 24 hours if you have the right book!
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@bleakgadfly that's cool!
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@lmarcetic GNU+Hurd would be an OS, but this combination should be called just "GNU" as in GNU+Hurd+Mach=GNU OS. Just Hurd+Mach=micro-kernel
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@jacobwb I thought Mach was the micro-kernel and Hurd the kernel built atop Mach. If so, Gnu+Hurd = GnuOS. I could be wrong, though.
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@lnxwalt280 Read http://is.gd/eQDzC "GNU+Hurd" should only be used to be specific about which kernel is used, e.g. GNU+Linux or GNU+kFreeBSD
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