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Linus Benedict Torvalds: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT [1991]
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chibea
on July 14, 2009
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jibiki
on July 14, 2009
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"Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows)"
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chibea
on July 14, 2009
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"The GNU Hurd is under active development. Because of that, there is no stable version." --
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html
gamache
on July 14, 2009
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Hurd didn't boot until 1994, and didn't really pick up until 1996.
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history.html
0wned
on July 15, 2009
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The Hurd kernel is used today. I know! When I worked for the NSA, all of our Cray supercomputers ran it. It can divide by zero and that is how we cracked passwords, AES 256, etc. It's a wonderful, albeit hippie-liberal kernel.
erikb
on July 14, 2009
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hurd is the operating system for duke nukem forever, didn't know that? ;-)
chibea
on July 14, 2009
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"[...] so for those hoping for an alternative to minix-386, please ignore me"
Sorry. Won't do you this favor...
moe
on July 14, 2009
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Wonder if he ever got through to Phil...
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