2006/10/28, Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
So why won't the FSF finish off the HURD and get a proper GNU OS out
under the GPLv3? Because Linux is *NOT* a GNU project.
We started GNU project to create a complete Free Operating System. We
now have such a Free Operating System with important contribution from
Linus Torvalds and we want to give credit to his work we call it
GNU/Linux (Linux based GNU system, GNU plus Linux)
Once we had Linux available as Free Software our main aim is achieved
(to give users freedom) and the reason why we didn't stop Hurd because
it is designed to be better than Unix.But since we already achieved
our main goal (a Free Operating System that respects its users and
help them live an ethical life), the technical merits are only less
important than Freedom. So we give less priority to Hurd and give more
priority to fight new threats to users Freedom like DRM and Software
patents ( so GPLv3 is more important to us than Hurd).
But if you are interested in the technical merits like flexibility for
its users, more power to the administrators, security of the system
and much more from the micro kernel design
( Read what Andrew Tanenbaum thinks about these
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/reliable-os/ )
Join with the GNU Hurd hackers and help us finish it.
You can try how it works. http://lily.nipl.net:4444/ you can get a
shell account to the GNU system and see it for yourself what all cool
new features it offers.
Or try a live CD from http://superunprivileged.org/
Or you can get some guidelines from http://hurd.in/bin/view/Hurd/HOWTOs
I promise, I will call it GNU/HURD.
Sure. We will call it just GNU :-)
Cheers
Praveen A
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