Happy birthday 🎊🎉 GNU/Linux.

Today GNU/Linux is 32 years old.

It was thankfully released to the public on August 25th, 1991 by Linus Torvalds when he was only 21 years old student.

What a lovely journey 🤍

    • flashgnash
      6·
      1 year ago

      What is actually the point of using hurd other than being able to say you use Hurd though?

      • Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.de
        9·
        1 year ago

        Maybe it hurds in a good way.

        Nah, it’s a kernel it does kernel stuff and does not offer anything a normal user notices compared to other kernels.

        It might be interesting for people who work on kernels just to see different ways on how to solve common problems.

        • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
          2·
          1 year ago

          afaik microkernels have a security advantage since kernel modules do not share the same address space as the main kernel or other modules

      • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
        4·
        1 year ago

        Possibly licensing reasons. Linux is GPLv2 only, Hurd seems to be GPLv2 or later, there could be reasons you may want to use something under the GPLv3.

      • NormalC@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Hurd is not a monolithic kernel, so it’s an interesting technical endeavor. It’s also a GNU package which means it’s guaranteed to stay libre.

        Hurd is also a smaller project relative to linux without the many eyes of the Linux board members.