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You need to not run something to win, right? (lemmy.world)
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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago

pretty sure Hurd shat the bed.

or was that Herd?

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 19 points 6 months ago

You sir just won a mega pint of wine.

[-] starman@programming.dev 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Linux

  • has boring name

Hurd

  • has mutually recursive name
[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's time [to] explain the meaning of "Hurd". "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons". And, then, "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth". We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.

— Thomas (then Michael) Bushnell

Wow TIL

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Linux
Is
Not
Uni-
X

[-] ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 6 months ago

There is also the Hurd kernel, which has been in development for aeons.

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 months ago

imagine how good it will be when it's finished. aged like fine wine. /s

[-] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 6 points 6 months ago

Aged like milk

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 8 points 6 months ago

You mean GNU/Hurd

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Or Gnu plus Hurd as I've been recently calling it.

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