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by likeabatterycar 500 days ago
> GNU/Linux was created as a rewrite of Unix

GNU is a bunch of utilities no different than various terminal programs. The attempt at the "GNU OS" failed because the Hurd was never really usable.
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lmm 500 days ago
> The attempt at the "GNU OS" failed because the Hurd was never really usable.

Pre-systemd you could get Debian with Hurd and it was fine. There was never much reason to use it - hardware support was worse than Linux and there was no real killer feature in practice - but it worked.

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CRConrad 496 days ago
> The attempt at the "GNU OS" failed

No it didn't: GNU / Linux is a huge success.

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