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First Program Executed on L4 Port of GNU/HURD

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the downhill-battles dept.

wikinerd writes "The GNU Project was working on a new OS kernel called HURD from 1990, using the GNU Mach microkernel. However, when HURD-Mach was able to run a GUI and a browser, the developers decided to start from scratch and port the project to the high-performance L4 microkernel. As a result development was slowed by years, but now HURD developer Marcus Brinkmann made a historic step and finished the process initialization code, which enabled him to execute the first software on HURD-L4. He says: 'We can now easily explore and develop the system in any way we want. The dinner is prepared!'"

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  1. Dyu think Microsoft will ever live it down ... by ggvaidya · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... if GNU/HURD comes out before Longhorn?

    1. Re:Dyu think Microsoft will ever live it down ... by typhoonius · · Score: 4, Funny

      Mark my words, 2005 will be the year of HURD on the desktop.

    2. Re:Dyu think Microsoft will ever live it down ... by njvic · · Score: 5, Funny

      Come on... Microsoft will never live up to HURD. Everybody knows it takes many Longhorns to make one HURD.

      *ducks*

    3. Re:Dyu think Microsoft will ever live it down ... by djdavetrouble · · Score: 4, Funny

      Mark my words, 2005 will be the year of HURD on the desktop.
      I am going to start a project to rename every friggin FOSS project there is to gain popularity. I happen to know a little about publicity and advertising, and I can tell you right off the bat that products like the gimp, hurd, lame, gnu, etc etc will never gain widespread acceptance until they have a more marketable name. Case in point: Mozilla --> Firefox.

      Hurd will now be known as (dropping all of the stupid recursive abbreviation crap that RMS is so fond of) FUTURINO OPERATING SYSTEM .

      The Gimp will now be called PHOTOFRIEND.

      Lame is hereby dubbed - MUSICSHRINK 5000.

      Gnu/Emacs shall become - WORD-O-LATOR FREE

      and so on...

      --
      music lover since 1969
  2. Dilbert by john-gal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Reminds me of the Dilbert comic strip where an old man waves a piece of paper around and says "At last, I have formed a strategy that is acceptable to all departments. Now if only there were a way to reproduce text from one piece of paper to many."

  3. Re:Mods... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm guessing it will be more Daikatana than DNF.

  4. Re:It hurds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or they could decide to restart it.

  5. Re:choose a new name for a new kernel by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

    The L4Ka-based kernel is a new project that sounds like it has a lot of promise

    I don't think something called "El Forka" sounds all that inspiring.

  6. Re:It hurds by halivar · · Score: 4, Funny

    it just took time to emerge

    Damn, those Gentoo guys don't miss a beat, do they?