ls, sh and friends [LWN.net]

ls, sh and friends

Posted Nov 19, 2003 21:37 UTC (Wed) by vblum (subscriber, #1151)
In reply to: Thomas Bushnell removed from Hurd development by piman
Parent article: Thomas Bushnell is no longer Hurd maintainer

I know. But if your hardware is not supported by the kernel, you are out. As much as I never "use" the kernel, I do appreciate (very much) the level of out-of-the-box support that Linux now offers. And that is supposed to read Linux. I am also really grateful for Gnu et al. I'd be stuck without them. But I could run ls on Windows (Cygwin) if I wanted to.

Anything that I have ever read about Hurd seems to me
(1) great stuff, if it ever works (whether "better" than Linux or not I don't care, but having another fully independent free alternative would be great)
(2) ideological management - top-down design both in terms of architecture, and target.

(2) is a problem. It's Linux's great strength that there is no outright ideological overhead - feels much more welcoming.

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