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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."

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  1. Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Seriously, it's been, what, 15+ years? The project seems to have two main phases of development:

    1) Several months of intense bickering followed by factions breaking off to make half-assed attempts at porting to a more modern microkernel.
    2) A year or two of complete silence as the ports are abandoned and a couple of diehards continue to work on Mach.

    Where are they now? They've got a couple of novelty builds that almost work reliably enough to play with for a weekend. Big fuckken deal.

  2. Arch Hurd by barzam · · Score: 3, Informative

    Arch Hurd is already available so no need to wait for Debian to release anything if you want to try it out. http://www.archhurd.org/

  3. Citation provided by FranTaylor · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those too lazy to use a search engine:

    http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/weblogs/ArneBab/technical-advantages-of-the-hurd.html