• FuglyDuck
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    426 months ago

    pretty sure Hurd shat the bed.

    or was that Herd?

  • ChojinDSL
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    266 months ago

    There is also the Hurd kernel, which has been in development for aeons.

  • @starman
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    6 months ago

    Linux

    • has boring name

    Hurd

    • has mutually recursive name
    • @[email protected]
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      6 months ago

      It’s time [to] explain the meaning of “Hurd”. “Hurd” stands for “Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons”. And, then, “Hird” stands for “Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth”. We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.

      — Thomas (then Michael) Bushnell


      Wow TIL

  • Presi300
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    -216 months ago

    I don’t wanna be that guy but… Linux is a kernel and Hurd is an operating system, so technically neither of them run by default

    • TxzK
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      436 months ago

      Hurd isn’t an operating system tho. It’s a bunch of microkernel servers for GNU Mach microkernel.

    • @[email protected]
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      76 months ago

      Hurd is the Kernel part of the GNU. Linux is the kernel that replaces the kernel part of GNU because Hurd is not yet ready for 64 bit arch.