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GNU Hurd To Develop SATA, USB, Audio Support

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Finally! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally, 2013 is the year of Hurd on the desktop!

  2. Duke Nukem is a Punk by Bob9113 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is good that Hurd is a live project regardless of how much production use it sees. It explores kernel design theory; valuable work in itself.

    Still, I can't help a little ribbing.

    founded by Richard Stallman in 1983,

    Duke Nukem? Feh. Only took 15 years to go gold. Hurd is 30 and they just started working on sound cards.

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  3. Re:Why should I bother? by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why should I bother to use this kernel? What benefit would it give me over using just the regular Linux kernel or *BSD?

    Its name is a mutually recursive acronym!

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  4. Re:Really, who cares? by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think Poor Richard has lived in an ivory tower far too long.

    But hey, he may get lauded by Tanenbaum for staying with a microkernel design.

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  5. Re:And when will Linux on the desktop catch up? by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Funny

    Catching up to the last in the race is no achievement.

    Wrong - catching up with the last in the race is a great achievement - you've just managed to bypass the rules of logic.