Rant......

[Kurt Wall]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 02:01:49PM +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> I thought the Herd project was older than Linux. It just never really took
> off. Linux is what Hurd was supposed to be, more or less. Right? I think RS
> is po'd that Linux beat Herd to the punch.

Hurd had some, um, development issues. It is also based on the
MACH microkernel, which makes it quite a different critter than
the monolithic Linux kernel.

> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 20:52:21 -1000
> James McDonald <jmcd9336 at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > > What? HERD...?
> > 
> > Wasn't the herd kernel a response of Richard Stallman to his
> > disappointment at not getting the appropriate recognition for all the gnu
> > utilities that have been pivotal in Linux becoming what it is today? Or so
> > I read somewhere in Linux Format or Linux Journal.

Kurt