[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“The HURD was meant to be the true kernel at the heart
of the GNU operating system. The promise behind the HURD was
revolutionary – a set of daemons on top of a microkernel that
was intended to surpass the performance of the monolithic kernels
of traditional Unix systems and in doing so, give greater security,
freedom and flexibility to the users – but it has yet to come
down to earth.“Work on the GNU operating system began in 1984 and had been
seven or eight years in the making by the time that Linux came
along.“”If the GNU kernel had been ready last spring,” Linus Torvalds
wrote to Andy Tanenbaum in January 1992, “I’d not have bothered to
even start my project: the fact is that it wasn’t and still
isn’t”.”