The GNU project was started in 1983 and in 2025 you can finally use a pure GNU operating system. Not that you’d want to but that is some serious perseverance.

  • RalfWausE@feddit.org
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    8 hours ago

    Some time ago (one or two years, i am not sure) i had the Hurd running on an old Thinkpad and used it as a daily driver for a couple of months. It…worked. Most of the times.

    The thing is: Its a really interesting system that - in a different timeline - would have made up a GREAT operating system if it would have come forward and evolved a lot faster. Even without the lack of a browser the bloated VM we nowadays call a browser (you can absolutely run Dillo on it) it just hurts a bit too much to use it for more than resarch / hobbyist / hacking purposes.