You mean there is a GNU/HURD ? I thought that was slated for release only with the Phantom Game Console, you know the one shipping with Duke Nukem Forever?
On 9/11/06, Blake Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sep 11, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Lonnie Olson wrote: > A coworker of mine (Debian bigot) just showed me this strange project > coming from Debian[1]. > > Essentially it is a Debian distro using the FreeBSD kernel instead of > Linux. This confused the heck out of me. I thought that was the > silliest thing to do. I mean what's next? A Hurd kernel, BSD > userland, > Gnu C library, with a Debian package set??? This goes way beyond the > "because I can" reasoning. > This is really an old idea. One that RMS has been harping on since Linux became the least bit popular. Linux is just a kernel. In fact a project to run Debian on GNU/Hurd has been in the works for a LONG time. -Blake /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
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