[josteink]

Looking back it's amazing how much traction the gnu userland tools gained and how little (zero?) their kernel gained.

I'm not going to call it a wasted effort, because I appreciate there being other "Unix"-systems around in case Linux ever goes bad, but at this point it seems to be a whole lot of work invested for nothing.

Maybe things will change 5 years down the road when people abandon systemd and DMD had matured, and the best way to run it is on Hurd, but I'm not putting any money on that bet ;)

[justincormack]

There are the BSDs as other Unix systems around; they of course were not at the point when this was written as the lawsuits were unresolved. NetBSD started in 1993, after this. So we have plenty of backup without having to fix Hurd, as well as the L4 based microkernels that are much more mature and interesting than Hurd.