Linus Benedict Torvalds: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT [1991] (groups.google.com) 14 points by chibea 17y ago ↗ HN
[–] chibea 17y ago ↗ "[...] so for those hoping for an alternative to minix-386, please ignore me"Sorry. Won't do you this favor...
[–] jibiki 17y ago ↗ "Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows)":) [–] chibea 17y ago ↗ "The GNU Hurd is under active development. Because of that, there is no stable version." -- http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html [–] gamache 17y ago ↗ Hurd didn't boot until 1994, and didn't really pick up until 1996.http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history.html [–] erikb 17y ago ↗ hurd is the operating system for duke nukem forever, didn't know that? ;-) [–] 0wned 17y ago ↗ The Hurd kernel is used today. I know! When I worked for the NSA, all of our Cray supercomputers ran it. It can divide by zero and that is how we cracked passwords, AES 256, etc. It's a wonderful, albeit hippie-liberal kernel.
[–] chibea 17y ago ↗ "The GNU Hurd is under active development. Because of that, there is no stable version." -- http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html [–] gamache 17y ago ↗ Hurd didn't boot until 1994, and didn't really pick up until 1996.http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history.html
[–] gamache 17y ago ↗ Hurd didn't boot until 1994, and didn't really pick up until 1996.http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history.html
[–] 0wned 17y ago ↗ The Hurd kernel is used today. I know! When I worked for the NSA, all of our Cray supercomputers ran it. It can divide by zero and that is how we cracked passwords, AES 256, etc. It's a wonderful, albeit hippie-liberal kernel.
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http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history.html