GNU 40th anniversary
GNU 40th anniversary
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/5592397
Forty years ago, Richard Stallman announced the plan to develop the GNU operating system, which would be entirely composed of free software. The existence of a free operating system would enable people to operate their computers in freedom, throwing off the power of the developers of nonfree software. The GNU Project has also built the global free software movement.
Is this the year of the Hurd desktop?
can't even get a de working with the current debian builds lmao
love the name cause every time I think its gotta be a joke. Like did they name it after Lief Erikson day
(spongebob reference for the uninitiated)
An anniversary is always gnu
GNU world order
Forty years ago, Richard Stallman announced the plan to develop the GNU operating system
40 years ago and their "OS" still misses the most important part of an OS being an OS. I love how they pretend that the GNU tools are somehow an OS.
Edit: To quote the great Linus Torvalds:
In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won’t end up like the Hurd people.
There's no need for that, we're all on the same side, and the GNU tools may not be an os by themselves, but they are a crucial part of any Linux distribution.
I would dispute that the kernel is "the most important part of an OS." It certainly is an important part - but it does nothing by itself, and a user cannot do anything with it.
Anyway, the reason Hurd isn't a priority anymore is because we have Linux (well, more specifically, Linux-libre). There's no need to reinvent something that is already available in the free software world.
How I personally frame it is for the system to operate, linux is required. Sure its a dog shit os compared to modern expectations, but hey it operates