«Hurd having been in development for so long, but still not production-ready; and with Linux as a mature free kernel being firmly established as the de-facto standard kernel for the GNU system -- people often wonder: why haven't developers abandoned the Hurd long ago?
Read more »A month of the Hurd: Arch Hurd, FOSDEM preparations and a thesis on mobile Hurd objects.
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