GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (somewhat) practical way

Re:GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (... by adastra22 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @01:48AM (#37044977)

I don’t know enough about Hurd to say, but as an example MINUX found its niche as the control software for Intel’s management system. As a result MINUX is/was more widely deployed than Linux for a few years. Still might be.

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Re:GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (... by danieldk on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @02:23AM (#37045209)

Just for clarification, you mean MINIX. Fun fact, even Andrew Tanenbaum only learned about this through news coverage:

https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/

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Re:GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (... by adastra22 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @04:29AM (#37046094)

Thanks, was posting from mobile and memory.

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Re:GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (... by robertlagrant on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @03:13AM (#37045553)

I don't know why this comment got downvoted? Purely on spelling?

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Re:GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (... by kjs3 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @12:15PM (#37051343)

I would argue that MINIX being used by one company for one application that isn't visible to users and doesn't (as far as I know) contribute any code back to the wider MINIX community (which is a thing) means it really isn't in the same conversation with Linux and *BSD. YMMV.

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