Unity Interface in 10.10 Netbook Edition

Jordon Bedwell jordon at envygeeks.com
Fri Oct 29 09:42:06 UTC 2010


On 10/29/2010 04:01 AM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> On Friday 29 October 2010 09:30:41 am Christopher Chan wrote:
>> On Friday, October 29, 2010 03:21 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>> Having said this, I am getting REALLY peed-off with the whole thing in
>>> the Linux world and am considering going back to Windows.
>>
>> Basil,
>>
>> There is always Openindiana or StormOS or even Mac OS X.
> 
> This probably is OT, but when reading this (and googling to know more about 
> Openindiana and StormOS) it made me think of this strange and elusive thing 
> called GNU Hurd.
> 
> Since I've started using Linux I think I've been reading the same text on 
> their web site (http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html)
> 
> "The GNU Hurd is under active development. Because of that, there is no stable 
> version."
> 
> Anyone know if this "Hurd" is more than vaporware? I mean after ten years 
> of "active development".....
> 
> Thierry

It's alive and dead at the same time.  People are still using it, trying
to develop on it, Debian is the main compiler for it, but it's almost
dead because nobody uses it, and it will never make it mainstream
because it's a-lot-a-bit outdated.




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