GNU Hurd 0.6 released
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GNU Hurd 0.6 released
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Re: GNU Hurd 0.6 released
#2I'm sure there will be a few people chuckling at the news that the Hurd is still under development.
Yesterday I learned from one of my colleagues that the newer versions of OSX will only run kernel extensions signed by Apple.
The need for the GNU project is as great now as it was in the 1980s.
Re: GNU Hurd 0.6 released
#3I'm sure there will be a few people chuckling at the news that the Hurd is still under development. Yesterday I learned from one of my colleagues that the newer versions of OSX will only run kernel extensions signed by Apple. The need for the GNU project is as great now as it was in the 1980s.
... and there's the inevitable downvote for criticising Apple. If you disagree with my assertion that Apple is providing a need for software freedom in 2015, please post it. I'd love to discuss it; voting buttons are no substitute for discourse.
Re: GNU Hurd 0.6 released
#4I'm sure there will be a few people chuckling at the news that the Hurd is still under development. Yesterday I learned from one of my colleagues that the newer versions of OSX will only run kernel extensions signed by Apple. The need for the GNU project is as great now as it was in the 1980s.
... and there's the inevitable downvote for criticising Apple. If you disagree with my assertion that Apple is providing a need for software freedom in 2015, please post it. I'd love to discuss it; voting buttons are no substitute for discourse.
Unless your post is blasted into oblivion it could just as well be fat-fingering an upvote on mobile.
Re: GNU Hurd 0.6 released
#5I'm sure there will be a few people chuckling at the news that the Hurd is still under development. Yesterday I learned from one of my colleagues that the newer versions of OSX will only run kernel extensions signed by Apple. The need for the GNU project is as great now as it was in the 1980s.
I'm now very fond to see old ambitious project being alive without trendy interest and funding. I don't even think HURD is as revolutionary as it was when it started, but still a very (very very) nice contribution to biodiversity. And, of course, the OSS spirit embedded within.
I suggest people to look for Samuel Thibault past talks about HURD to see how different layering of components open for fine usages (mounting remote .isos from FTP without suffering too much).
Re: GNU Hurd 0.6 released
#6I'm sure there will be a few people chuckling at the news that the Hurd is still under development. Yesterday I learned from one of my colleagues that the newer versions of OSX will only run kernel extensions signed by Apple. The need for the GNU project is as great now as it was in the 1980s.
i'm chuckling a bit. but then the whole GNU ecosystem is about catering to a tiny minority with special priorities... inside of an even tinier minority of users of open source OSes. I'm sure I am just an outsider who doesn't really understand the needs or the motivations...
Linux does well in the server world, and Apple get a lot of attention, but even then, between them, they account for something like 4% of OS installs.
I'm also not sure there is much need for GNU. The licenses are absolutely awful for things that claim to be free... sometimes if something is using LGPL with exceptions it will see some serious reuse (Qt as an example) but the GPL license is a great way to stop a project ever reaching its full potential due to its viral nature.
Re: GNU Hurd 0.6 released
#7I'm sure there will be a few people chuckling at the news that the Hurd is still under development. Yesterday I learned from one of my colleagues that the newer versions of OSX will only run kernel extensions signed by Apple. The need for the GNU project is as great now as it was in the 1980s.
i'm chuckling a bit. but then the whole GNU ecosystem is about catering to a tiny minority with special priorities... inside of an even tinier minority of users of open source OSes. I'm sure I am just an outsider who doesn't really understand the needs or the motivations... Linux does well in the server world, and Apple get a lot of attention, but even then, between them, they account for something like 4% of OS inst…
> they account for something like 4% of OS installs.
From a desktop perspective, yes, but Linux at this point has a majority stake in pretty much every other realm of computing.
Re: GNU Hurd 0.6 released
#8I'm sure there will be a few people chuckling at the news that the Hurd is still under development. Yesterday I learned from one of my colleagues that the newer versions of OSX will only run kernel extensions signed by Apple. The need for the GNU project is as great now as it was in the 1980s.
Yesterday I learned from one of my colleagues that the newer versions of OSX will only run kernel extensions signed by Apple.
Oh, no, won't this kill or greatly hurt the hackintosh community's ability to install on non-Apple hardware?
Re: GNU Hurd 0.6 released
#9I'm sure there will be a few people chuckling at the news that the Hurd is still under development. Yesterday I learned from one of my colleagues that the newer versions of OSX will only run kernel extensions signed by Apple. The need for the GNU project is as great now as it was in the 1980s.
i'm chuckling a bit. but then the whole GNU ecosystem is about catering to a tiny minority with special priorities... inside of an even tinier minority of users of open source OSes. I'm sure I am just an outsider who doesn't really understand the needs or the motivations... Linux does well in the server world, and Apple get a lot of attention, but even then, between them, they account for something like 4% of OS inst…
Do you realize that mobile devices like smartphones and tablets most often have a linux-based or an apple-delivered OS?
Following Gartner [1], 60% of all devices shipped in 2014 have an OS based on Linux or delivered by Apple.
Do you think that a law that prohibits making other people slaves is non-free in nature? Because the GPL prohibits something similiar.
Re: GNU Hurd 0.6 released
#10The real question is... is it semver?