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have you heard,

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by jaqui 1 view

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of GNU/Hurd?

The same base system as GNU/Linux, but using a different kernel.

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by deadly ernest

standing in front of when they decide to panic and charge somewhere - I wonder how many GNUs do constitute a herd or a hurd.

by jaqui

actually, it's an interesting concept.

the kernel handles only processes, even the device drivers are in user space, not kernel space.

some of the issues come from resource management, the kernel doesn't know that the ram content it just wrote to the swap partition is needed for the next process scheduled.

it's a fun way to really play with an os, figuring out what's going wrong and how to fix it before there is a stable release of anything for the os. even the kernel is pre-alpha.

by jaqui

a replacement kernel..

though really it's the gnu system as userpace services on any unix kernel.

by jck

i knew it wasn't a compiler

i just first used GNU C back in about 1988 or so...during college. That's how i heard of GNU.

Gotta love the -S option, when you have an assembler course :^0

by ---tk---

But after reading your post, I did research it (a little). Very interesting read though!

by jaqui

interesting idea.
unfortunately, the umber of bodies actively working on getting it running and usable is limited.

I'm thinking about forking the lfs books to be for the hurd. maybe if some of the problems with building can be documented, with solutions, more people will take an interest in working with the project.

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