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GNU Hurd Dormant

GNU Hurd
KindOperating system
Appeared1990
StatusDormant
CreatorGNU Project / FSF
FamilyIndependent
Platformx86
Sourcewww.gnu.org ↗

The kernel GNU kept meaning to finish — Mach-based servers-in-userspace; still developed, still the punchline that outlived its punchline status.

GNU Hurd — the FSF's own kernel, a Mach-based multi-server design — began 1990 and has been 'almost ready' since. Its translator concept (the filesystem as composable servers) remains architecturally elegant.\n\nDebian GNU/Hurd exists; it works; it's still waiting for its kernel moment while Linux took it.

Sources

  1. gnu.org/software/hurd/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd