[Mageia-discuss] Linux is a KERNEL not an OS

Hoyt Duff hoytduff at gmail.com
Thu Mar 3 22:10:55 CET 2011


On 3/3/11, Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> we should not forget that GNU had also tried to make a kernel of itself...
> which was a total failure.
>
The Mach microkernel
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/microkernel/mach.html
is used by the GNU Hurd
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html
with even a Debian version of it
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/debian.html

So, not a total failure. Just not wildly popular or widely supported.

Please avoid asking for Hurd-powered Mageia. 8)

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Hoyt


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