Re: How would I get debian unstable?
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:44:01AM -0400, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> And the FSF's own HURD will also replace Linux. Now HURD, like LINUX,
> is not an operating system, but an operating system kernel. All the
> applications on top of the kernel (like cat, ssh, OpenOffice) will
> likele cun on HURD, Berkeley BSD, and Linux more or less indifferently
> (though you'll probably have to recompile from source and make other
> minor adjustments). In fact, I've heard that Debian has plans to
> support HURD as well as Linux when it comes out. At that point Debian
> will no longer be just a Linux distribution.
Debian already has a hurd build, although how well it works I am not
sure. Debian also has BSD builds.
At this point I doubt Hurd will ever replace anything. Linux has a
large support base and thousands of contributers. Hurd still doesn't
seem to be going anywhere. Hurd seems to have fallen in to the trap of
trying to be a perfect kernel from an academic point of view, and so far
history seems to show that academic OS designs don't ever finish or
really get anywhere other than potentially showing off some neat ideas,
which is they are useful are then copied into systems people actually
use and the rest, however good the design may be, seems to be forgotten.
--
Len Sorensen
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