At Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:46:26 +0200, Alfred M Szmidt wrote: > > You may also want to check out what the plans of the FSF with the > Hurd were around about 2000/2001. There was a time where the Hurd > apparently was close to being stomped into the ground for good, > officially. I do not remember what made us panic, but there was an > announcement or a quote from a public speech RMS gave that seemed > to prepare the ground for declaring Linux the official kernel of > the GNU system. > > You mean the plans of making a release of the GNU system, using the > Hurd, and the Hurd working reliably?
Nope. I mean what I said, and not the opposite of what I said. This is usually true, unless I make a mistake. In this case, I didn't. I do not dig into the internals of the FSF, so maybe my impression was wrong. But I definitely remember that I saw something, maybe a quote or an announcement, which indicated that Linux was going to be the official GNU kernel. This was in spring 2001. Neal remembers the same thing, which is not surprising, as we shared the experience. This caused us to have a night-in session with Bradley Kuhn. If you really want to dig deeper into this, why don't you ask Bradley? He should remember it, and he knows what happens internally in the FSF. Thanks, Marcus _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
