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Re:What are the advantages of the Hurd over Linux/BSD? (2013) by ama729 on Saturday June 07, 2014 @07:42PM (#7863472)
> Is Hurd useful as anything other than a research project?

Bear in mind that a research project can be interesting in its own right, not everything has to be about large scale use.

Now if HURD is an interesting research, that's an entirely different subject...

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Re:What are the advantages of the Hurd over Linux/BSD? (2013) by rbanffy on Sunday June 08, 2014 @08:07AM (#7864485)
Even if it's not, not being interesting after so many years is, itself, interesting. I find the psychology of the attachment to software platforms fascinating.
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