LBK Post 019 What? Never Heard of Hurd?

The Hurd: GNU's Quest for the Perfect Kernel

So, with all due respect to the project's mission and philosophy, we should be happy that the Hurd wasn't ready in 1991, because in 2010 it still isn't (at least for production use). Reading the history of the Hurd (for example in the article that The H published in late June), a comparison to the everlasting development of the video game Duke Nukem Forever is not completely far-fetched. A release has been promised several times, but the development schedule has been postponed even more and the architecture has been completely redone several times.

No vaporware

So what is the state of the Hurd? Is it vaporware, like Duke Nukem Forever?

Fortunately not: the code exists, there is still work going on (for instance as part of Google Summer of Code), and there are even some relatively functional Hurd distributions. Let's look first at the code and the current architecture, and then at the Hurd distributions.

Link:  http://lwn.net/Articles/395150/

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