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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: UDI and Free Software
From:       Richard Stallman <rms () gnu ! org>
Date:       1998-10-09 22:17:59
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> > Well, I never listened to them, and that's why we now have
> > a free operating system

    how is the Hurd doing these days?

Work is progressing, and if I find a very good programmer who wants to
work on the Hurd, I can hire one.  There is a project, Debian
GNU/Hurd, which is making a Hurd-based GNU system with a larger
collection of packages.

The Hurd, like Linux, is a kernel, not an operating system.  The Hurd
is one part of the GNU project that hasn't been a success, at least
not yet; I use Linux as the kernel, just as you do.  But the kernel is
just a small part of the GNU project.  What we set out to do, 15 years
ago, was no less than developing a whole free Unix-like operating
system.

You're using it.

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