Happy birthday 🎊🎉 GNU/Linux.

Today GNU/Linux is 32 years old.

It was thankfully released to the public on August 25th, 1991 by Linus Torvalds when he was only 21 years old student.

What a lovely journey 🤍

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    Speaking as someone that doesn’t understand computers very well: is Hurd usable as a kernel nowadays?

        • @[email protected]
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          91 year ago

          Maybe it hurds in a good way.

          Nah, it’s a kernel it does kernel stuff and does not offer anything a normal user notices compared to other kernels.

          It might be interesting for people who work on kernels just to see different ways on how to solve common problems.

          • KSP Atlas
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            21 year ago

            afaik microkernels have a security advantage since kernel modules do not share the same address space as the main kernel or other modules

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          Possibly licensing reasons. Linux is GPLv2 only, Hurd seems to be GPLv2 or later, there could be reasons you may want to use something under the GPLv3.

        • NormalC
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          31 year ago

          Hurd is not a monolithic kernel, so it’s an interesting technical endeavor. It’s also a GNU package which means it’s guaranteed to stay libre.

          Hurd is also a smaller project relative to linux without the many eyes of the Linux board members.