On 9/1/2012 7:10 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
The GNU OS project went on and on for a long time, as
the dream of
several people, so I think it was very tough for them to just throw in
the towel and be content with the fact that their *utilities* were
what the world depended on, and they didn't build the entire OS.
I remember bootstrapping the GNU/HURD circa 1998 for grins. It was a
real PITA, though. It may be worth trying to run as a VM these days just
to play with.