Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 servis@purdue.edu wrote:
: *- Thomas Malloy wrote about "Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?) "
: | ALPHA SPARC i386 HURD
: | Which one of these things is not like the other?
: |
: | 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.
In fact, it's conceivable that there could be a Debian GNU/blah release
for any system blah, though the non-freeness of many of those systems
makes that unlikely.
Imagine "Debian GNU/FreeBSD" ... that would send some people straight
over the edge.
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