GNU Hurd To Develop SATA, USB, Audio Support

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 10, 2013 @03:23AM from the ear-to-the-ground-gets-you-trampled dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Hurd, the GNU micro-kernel project that was founded by Richard Stallman in 1983, may finally be catching up with Linux on the desktop... Plans were shared by its developers to finally bring in some modern functionality by working on support for Serial ATA drives, USB support, and sound cards. There are also ambitions to provide x86-64 CPU architecture support. GNU Hurd developers will be doing an unofficial Debian GNU/Hurd 'Wheezy' release this year but they hope for the Debian 'Jessie' release their micro-kernel in Debian will make it as part of some official CDs."

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Re:Real artists ship. by macs4all · 2013-02-10 06:50 · Score: 1, Flamebait

He already did that. It's called emacs.
Oooo!

So a GENERATION ago, he wrote a TEXT EDITOR.

Wow.

Oh, and even worse than that; he wrote a text editor with an incredibly non-intuitive and sometimes even DANGEROUS command-set.

A developer friend of mine was editing some C source in emacs, when he somehow finger-flubbed a command that not only UPPERCASEd his ENTIRE source; but then SAVED WITHOUT PROMPTING.

To this day, he won't touch emacs. Can't say as I blame him.

Hell, even the OS X "Aqua-fied" emacs is nearly impossible to use. It doesn't matter HOW "powerful" something is (especially something like a TEXT EDITOR, for fuck's sake!), if you have to spend YEARS learning it.