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[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 33 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Cool. I wonder how many people actually run Hurd and what the user experience and it's cases are like. I've known about it for ever. But to this day I can't say I've ever talked with anyone who runs it. No shade against Hurd of course. I like BeOS haiku and plan 9, so I'm certainly not trying to make a dig about user base.

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 40 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I bet most Linux people haven't even Hurd of it.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

I gnu someone would make that joke

[–] Willdrick@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago
[–] tux7350@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ive read about plan 9 and found it fascinating but really have no use case for it. What do you use plan 9 for? Any recommendations?

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 4 points 5 days ago

Honestly just tinkering. Getting much modern software on it is a bit of an exercise in futility. But playing around with basic programming in a terminal can still be fascinating and a lot of fun. The concepts of the os have always interested me a lot. It as well as inferno.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

All six users are rejoicing!

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

Is this the Year of Hurd on the Desktop?

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Hell yeah! HURD gaming, here I come!

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I had no idea what that was. I looked it up. It looks like the last release was in 2016. So it's dead, right?

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Hurd was dead when the initial commit was made. They slacked around for years because one project they depended on had potential licensing issues and by the time work kinda started to maybe begin, Linux was out there and there really was no point for Hurd. In the mean time, Hurd was left behind so far behind Linux that there was no chance of it ever becoming a viable alternative, and if it ever would become a viable alternative, all it would do would be fracturing the open source kernel landscape which would be detremental to device driver support.

Not even Stallman believes that there's a point to hurd.