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Comment by likeabatterycar

3 months ago

> GNU/Linux was created as a rewrite of Unix

GNU is a bunch of utilities no different than various terminal programs. The attempt at the "GNU OS" failed because the Hurd was never really usable.

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lmm  3 months ago

> The attempt at the "GNU OS" failed because the Hurd was never really usable.

Pre-systemd you could get Debian with Hurd and it was fine. There was never much reason to use it - hardware support was worse than Linux and there was no real killer feature in practice - but it worked.