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Watch Out Linux, GNU Hurd Coming

Posted by timothy on from the you-have-only-about-46,396,800-seconds dept.

sfcrazy writes "Debian now has concrete plans to bring GNU Hurd to the larger community. GNU Hurd is expected to be released with the release of Debian 7.0 Wheezy towards the end of 2012 or beginning of 2013. Debian maintainer Samuel Thibault has already produced a Debian GNU/Hurd CD Set with a graphic installer which is available to download."

19 of 463 comments (clear)

  1. This can't be!! by jlechem · · Score: 5, Funny

    Duke Nukem Forever actually gets released and now Hurd? Pinch me I must be dreaming!

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    1. Re:This can't be!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Must be the fault of the LHC. It keeps destroying all the highly probable universes.

      So now the only universes left are ones where DN Forever and Hurd both actually see the light of day.

      Next up:
      - Irrefutable proof that OJ is innocent.
      - Irrefutable proof that Casey Anthony is innocent.
      - OJ and Casey Anthony get married and have a child; and both her and the child live to old age.
      - Chicago Bears win a Super Bowl

      Man ... the universe is becoming a really scary place!

    2. Re:This can't be!! by Penguinisto · · Score: 3, Funny

      Question is, if someone makes a non-free/FOSS driver for it, what happens?

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    3. Re:This can't be!! by Bill_the_Engineer · · Score: 4, Funny

      Wait... it's 2011. Damn it's been a *long* day. Seemed like a year.

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    4. Re:This can't be!! by joaosantos · · Score: 3, Funny

      You grab some popcorn and watch the show.

    5. Re:This can't be!! by moderatorrater · · Score: 4, Funny

      SHIT! It's already making retro-active changes!

    6. Re:This can't be!! by Sylak · · Score: 3, Funny

      - Buffalo Bills win a Super Bowl

      FTFY

    7. Re:This can't be!! by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 4, Funny

      - Buffalo Bills win a Super Bowl

      Ouch. I guess you haven't heard the old proverb: "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me FOUR times..."

    8. Re:This can't be!! by daremonai · · Score: 3, Funny

      But the poor Cubs still don't win a World Series.

      Well, yeah, there are only an infinite number of possible universes. This would require infinity plus one.

  2. 2011 by Sinthet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will be the year of the Hurd Desktop. 'Nuff said.

  3. Re:*snore* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Much like it's long-awaited vaporware cousin, Duke Nukem Forever, the wait will not be worth it.

    That's "Duke GNU/kem Forever" to you, sir!
    - RMS

  4. And for my next trick... by bmo · · Score: 5, Funny

    BSD userland on top of GNU Hurd.

    "What the hell do you call an OS like that?"

    "I'll call it 'The Aristocrats'"

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    BMO

  5. I'm still calling it Linux! by bigsexyjoe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because I think an angry Stallman is a funny Stallman. So I Iook forward to this new Linux variant and I thank Linus Torvalds from the bottom of my heart. There would be no free software movement without you and you cannot be venerated enough. I wonder how Mr. Torvalds came up with Hurd? Oh wait, it is because he is a genius.

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  6. Re:FP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Re:FP

    Way to figure it out, genius.

  7. They're probably thinking about December 21, 2012 by fuzzytv · · Score: 5, Funny

    They have probably noticed the end of the world is December 21, 2012 and they hope it's true. That way no one will actually notice Hurd was postponed again ...

  8. Re:Deja Vu? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, but the headline said the inventor would release it right after he took his next shower.

    It's finally come to fruition.

  9. Re:This just in... by larry+bagina · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yep, no mouse. And the graphic is tubgirl.

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    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  10. Where did I leave my puffer? by westlake · · Score: 2, Funny

    Way to be timely and relevant, GNU.

    What could be greater show of health and vigor than naming your first release "Debian Wheezy?"

  11. Re:Dude Stop Trolling Stallman by Voyager529 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Charging Stallman vs. Chair Throwing Steve Ballmer...

    for all the crap we give "SyFy" for airing professional wrestling, THAT is a match that I'd be perfectly fine watching.