GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (somewhat) practical way

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  • libsixel

    A SIXEL encoder/decoder implementation derived from kmiya's sixel (https://github.com/saitoha/sixel).

  • genode

    Genode OS Framework

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  • redox

    Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox

  • Even in the noncommercial world, Hurd's gone precisely nowhere. RedoxOS is a toy and had a GUI within a year or so. Brutal got in within two. SerenityOS not only built a GUI but the beginnings of the first greenfield web browser to gain any semblance of modern standards support in the past several decades. Honestly, what's Hurd doing wrong to flounder so hard?

    [0] https://github.com/redox-os/redox/releases/tag/0.0.3

    [1] https://github.com/brutal-org/brutal/releases

    [2] https://serenityos.org/happy/1st/

  • brutal

    🏢 An operating system inspired by brutalist design that combines the ideals of UNIX from the 1970s with modern technology and engineering

  • Even in the noncommercial world, Hurd's gone precisely nowhere. RedoxOS is a toy and had a GUI within a year or so. Brutal got in within two. SerenityOS not only built a GUI but the beginnings of the first greenfield web browser to gain any semblance of modern standards support in the past several decades. Honestly, what's Hurd doing wrong to flounder so hard?

    [0] https://github.com/redox-os/redox/releases/tag/0.0.3

    [1] https://github.com/brutal-org/brutal/releases

    [2] https://serenityos.org/happy/1st/

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