Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:59:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Doug Lo <jwlo@ms11.hinet.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's difference between FreeBSD and GNU's HURD? Message-ID: <19980415175917.E1090@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <353464F9.625EA36D@technologist.com>; from Doug Lo on Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 03:42:49PM %2B0800 References: <353464F9.625EA36D@technologist.com>
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On Wed, 15 April 1998 at 15:42:49 +0800, Doug Lo wrote: > Hi, folks, > > My friend told me that GNU'S HURD is power more than FreeBSD and Linux, > is it the truth? > Would anyone tell me what's difference between FreeBSD and HURD? > advantages and disadvantages? My recollection is that the HURD is still not complete (still in alpha release). The last release on prep.ai.mit.edu is 0.2, and it's nearly a year old. I also recall that the HURD had all sorts of fancy features. The name stands for a HIRD of UNIX Replacing Daemons, and a HIRD is some other recursive acronym, of which the H stands for HURD. I never got interested enough to follow up. As far as I can tell, the Free Software Foundation has changed direction, and would rather use Linux than the HURD. Possibly people just lost interest. I have no idea whether it's better than Linux or FreeBSD, but I am sure that it would be an incredible amount of work to get it to work. You'd effectively join the development team. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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