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Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)



On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 10:51:56PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> > Imagine "Debian GNU/FreeBSD" ... that would send some people straight
> > over the edge.
> 
> Uhhmmm why not.  So that we can all multiple boot to these OS's ( Linux
> /HURD/FreeBSD/Win32/fooOS) without learning any other packaging systems.
> 
> I love OS's!

Well, FreeBSD is not just as kernel, it's the whole OS, unlike Linux &
Hurd, which are just kernels (the distribution is the OS). You could do it,
but then you could do Debian GNU/Solaris too if you wanted.

Hamish
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