It’s taken more than 25 years to develop but the Hurd operating system may soon be released.
It’s been more than 25 years in the making and yet most people have never heard of it. Now the Free Software Foundation’s Hurd operating system may finally get to show what it has to offer.
A little history: decades ago Richard Stallman began work on a completely free (as in freedom) Unix-like operating system. Frustrated by the increasingly proprietary software world around him, Stallman set about to rewrite the tools and applications that made up a typical Unix operating system.
To his credit he worked tirelessly over the years and developed a huge amount of software. The only problem was that he didn’t have a kernel, the bit that runs at the heart of an operating system and coordinates all the tools and applications.
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