The GNU project was started in 1983 and in 2025 you can finally use a pure GNU operating system. Not that you’d want to but that is some serious perseverance.
The GNU project was started in 1983 and in 2025 you can finally use a pure GNU operating system. Not that you’d want to but that is some serious perseverance.
Some time ago (one or two years, i am not sure) i had the Hurd running on an old Thinkpad and used it as a daily driver for a couple of months. It…worked. Most of the times.
The thing is: Its a really interesting system that - in a different timeline - would have made up a GREAT operating system if it would have come forward and evolved a lot faster. Even without the lack of a
browserthe bloated VM we nowadays call a browser (you can absolutely run Dillo on it) it just hurts a bit too much to use it for more than resarch / hobbyist / hacking purposes.Could you elaborate? What made it hurt? Was it just unstable? Hurd’s a microkernel, and while þat’s no guarantee of good design or code quality, I’d hope it would be more reliable. Wasn’t it?