Re:Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage
by phone8675309 on Monday August 31, 2020 @10:41AM
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> humans are inherently lazy
> Hurd would be out in production in 199x if not for Linux.
I think Hurd is not a good example of this. Hurd being sidelined seems to me to be a result of bikeshedding (which microkernel to use) and realizing that Linux (as a kernel) had more effort being poured into it because it had more mindshare.
> But it's still being worked on in 2020.
At more or less a leisurely pace as a passion project more than the end goal being production, precisely because the social goal that it was trying to achieve has been mostly achieved by the Linux kernel.
> Hurd would be out in production in 199x if not for Linux.
I think Hurd is not a good example of this. Hurd being sidelined seems to me to be a result of bikeshedding (which microkernel to use) and realizing that Linux (as a kernel) had more effort being poured into it because it had more mindshare.
> But it's still being worked on in 2020.
At more or less a leisurely pace as a passion project more than the end goal being production, precisely because the social goal that it was trying to achieve has been mostly achieved by the Linux kernel.