[ale] question of os

[Jeff Hubbs]

I think he's thinking of Hurd.  

The GNU project (Richard Stallman a.k.a. "RMS") was supposed to be a
complete Unix work-alike but had no OS kernel.  What we know as "Linux"
is sometimes (at least in RMS' presence :-) ) referred to as the
GNU/Linux operating system.  It was a matter of two independent
undertakings being brought together at just the right time.  

Stephen, one could make one's life's work out of dealing with different
OSses.  For Intel CPUs alone, you already know of Linux and Windows but
there has been the BSDs (OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD) that are current now,
BeOS, Novell NetWare, Banyan VINES (actually based on an earlier UNIX),
various Unix flavors (SCO, Interactive, AT&T), and who knows what else. 
I think that the Hurd kernel is finally available; I dunno about a
working distro of it.

There have been many Unix variants, including those from IBM (AIX), Cray
(UNICOS), Sun (Solaris), SGI (IRIX), HP (HP-UX), and DEC (now known as
Tru64 Unix).

For a total of about seven years, I worked with DEC's (now Compaq's) VMS
(now known as OpenVMS); even by Linux standards, it was/is a very
capable OS whose native file system is said to be far more sophisticated
than Linux' and most (if not all) Unices.  I still miss its batch queue
mechanism.  VMS is still with us, but it's destined to die as its
platforms (VAX and Alpha) die.

- Jeff

On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 17:30, Michael Still wrote:
> Could it be GNU Hurd?
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history.html
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Turner [mailto:artic_knight at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 5:21 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] question of os
> 
> 
> hey i was reading a magazine forget which one and it had a dude in it that
> was supposedly behind the gnu movement, supposedly he had a cool os like
> linux designed but didnt have a kernel in time, linux just came out and
> seemed to 'borrow' his os since they didnt have an os,..... anyone know
> the name of it maybe? i realize this isnt much info, i dunno if it was bsd
> or what. whats you guys opinions on other os's? i mean the only os's ive
> touched is linux and windows, personally i LOVE linux but think i dont
> know enough about it, and i was wondering if someone preferres other os's
> or thinks there are cooler ones just as efficient or better than linux? i
> doubt anythink could be better than open source but hey ya never know :-p
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