Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)
*- Thomas Malloy wrote about "Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?) "
| ALPHA SPARC i386 HURD
| Which one of these things is not like the other?
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| Since hurd is an operating system and not an architecture why does debian release packages for it.
| I thought DEBIAN was a distribution of linux, which runs on various hardware platforms. I have no
| objection to the hurd project. It is quite worth while on its own merits, but what does it have to do
| with linux or debian?
|
The Hurd is a kernel not an OS. My take on this is that Debian is a
collection of apps and their philosophy of package managment and the
DFSG. The real name of Debian is 'Debian GNU/Linux', with the Hurd
kernel it will just be 'Debian GNU/Hurd' but all the top level will be
the same. The package managment the DFSG, etc will be identical.
I may be wrong but that's what I have gathered.
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Brian
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