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On 21/09/2024 21:08, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <pan$9c21$def65fdf$ff0cb13f$76105de1@gnu.rocks>, lt@gnu.rocks
> (Lester Thorpe) wrote:
> 
>> I would love to see Hurd revitalized and to assume the role of
>> the GNU kernel, replacing Linux.
> 
> That seems hard to achieve now. If a BSD kernel had been adopted
> originally, Linux might well never have become popular. Getting the Hurd
> to catch up to what the Linux kernel can do now, but doing it better,
> would be an immense task.
> 
> Relatively few people and organisations want to replace chunks of their
> operating systems, and hence the attractiveness of a system design which
> makes that easy is quite limited.
> 
> John

I think the real issues is that outside of the Linux Gopis, no one gives 
a fuck what OS they use as long as its

functional
cheap
supportable
stable
reliable
secure

At the moment that is linux.


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