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.