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Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 Released

Posted by Unknown on from the never-give-up dept.

jrepin writes "The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. It is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux). The Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2013. This is a snapshot of Debian 'sid' at the time of the Debian 'wheezy' release (May 2013), so it is mostly based on the same sources. Debian GNU/Hurd is currently available for the i386 architecture with more than 10,000 software packages available (more than 75% of the Debian archive)."

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  1. Re:Oh come on. by telchine · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh come on. April 1st is over. Everyone knows Hurd is a running gag. It's an ancient meme.

    Ha, indeed! Someone once tried to convince me that Duke Nukem Forever had been released too. I'm not so stupid that I'd fall for that!

  2. Re:Oh come on. by Big+Hairy+Ian · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh come on. April 1st is over. Everyone knows Hurd is a running gag. It's an ancient meme.

    You mean this is "Debian does Dallas"?

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  3. Re:Does anyone have any non-silly comments? by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft Research has done a lot of work on this exact idea. They even produced a usable operating system

    I suppose there's a first time for everything.

  4. Round and Round by bigredradio · · Score: 4, Funny

    This was modded informative because the argument is so old, it's coming back as 'vintage' by hipsters.

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  5. Re:Need Clarity by Skiron · · Score: 4, Funny

    To pretend you are still a hippy in the 70's?

  6. Re:Oh come on. by MrHanky · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Mayans were pointing to the dawn of a new era, the age of Linux on the desktop, which supposedly will last for the next B'ak'tun until Hurd is up and running on the L4 microkernel.