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GNU/Hurd

GNU/Hurd or simply GNU is the common name of a free software computer operating system consisting of the GNU system and the GNU Hurd as its core (a microkernel and a set of programs called servers that offers the same functionality as the traditional Unix kernel or Linux). The name is somewhat confusing since the GNU system includes GNU Hurd; however, it is used to distinguish it from GNU/Linux.

The GNU slash Hurd operating system can be tried using a live CD available from Superunprivileged.org (See external links). Another live CD, Gnuppix, uses GNU/Hurd running on the L4 microkernel.

= Confusion in naming =

GNU/Hurd refers to the GNU OS distribution that uses GNU Hurd as its core. GNU Hurd is the set of programs or servers run on top of a microkernel (it currently uses the GNU Mach microkernel, but efforts port the Hurd to the L4 microkernel family are currently ongoing). The GNU in GNU Hurd indicates that it is a part of the GNU project, while GNU/Hurd distinguishes it as one of the two currently available GNU systems--that is, Linux-based GNU systems (or GNU/Linux ) as opposed to Hurd-based GNU systems (or GNU/Hurd ). Just GNU refers to GNU/Hurd or a Hurd-based GNU system. GNU/Linux is pronounced GNU-slash-Linux , or more often, just GNU Linux . However, the FSF contests that GNU Linux , by the rules of the English language, refers to a distribution of the kernel Linux by the GNU project or GNU project s version of it; GNU/Linux , they say, makes it clear that a person is referring to the combination of the kernel Linux and the GNU userland binaries, forming a complete GNU OS. Linus Torvalds, original author of the kernel, does not approve of the term GNU/Linux ; he prefers GNU Linux if the GNU project wants its own distribution.

=See also=

*GNU Hurd *Bee GNU/Hurd *Debian GNU/Hurd *Unofficial Gentoo/Hurd Project

=External links=

*[http://hurd.gnufans.org/ The HURD Wiki] *[http://people.debian.org/~neal/FOSDEM-2005/ FOSDEM 2005 Hurd Developers Mini-Symposium] *[http://bee.es.gnu.org/ Bee GNU/Hurd] *[http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/ Debian GNU/Hurd] *[http://hurd.rustedhalo.net/ Gentoo/HURD] *[http://www.superunprivileged.org/ Superunprivileged.org] — provides a GNU/Hurd Live CD