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kalleboo
on March 23, 2012
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Why was Tanenbaum wrong in the Tanenbaum-Torvalds ...
I believe in this debate "GNU" refers to the Hurd kernel, not the userland. Hurd did turn out out to be a spectacular failure.
InclinedPlane
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Yes, this is exactly right on both counts. He's not making an argument about a generic open source POSIX operating system being dominant, he's making a specific argument about Hurd, the GNU kernel. Which, incidentally, still hasn't been released.
beza1e1
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Hard to call it a failure, because it is not over yet. They are happily failing for 20 years now. :)
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/
jacquesm
on March 23, 2012
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The fact that they are failing for 20 years does not mean they're not a failure.
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