Don't Want systemd? Try GNU Hurd, But It Still Lacks 64-bit, Audio & USB | Linux Today

Don’t Want systemd? Try GNU Hurd, But It Still Lacks 64-bit, Audio & USB

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Michael Larabel
Feb 5, 2015

While it doesn’t get talked about too much these days, GNU Hurd remains under active development. A GNU Hurd developer has shared a status update about the state of Hurd in 2015 and how you can start contributing.

Samuel Thibault spoke at FOSDEM this past weekend about getting involved with this free software kernel project as an alternative to Linux, although Thibault is also a Linux user/developer.

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Michael Larabel

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