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| author | MutoShack <MutoShack@web> | 2019-03-24 21:14:01 +0100 |
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| committer | GNU Hurd web pages engine <web-hurd@gnu.org> | 2019-03-24 21:14:01 +0100 |
| commit | 941b013b236d0d51a1b65d6e9a74947e046908a6 (patch) | |
| tree | c0357f8ef9a645dd305e79bf2949f91ba3df77b1 | |
| parent | a6b4e7e01c4bd5fdce00ae5851525496719a384a (diff) | |
Praise for POSIX compliance
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diff --git a/advantages.mdwn b/advantages.mdwn index 00c3c730..9442b017 100644 --- a/advantages.mdwn +++ b/advantages.mdwn @@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ For all intents and purposes, the Hurd provides the same facilities as a modern development closely tracks [[standards such as ANSI/ISO, BSD, POSIX, Single Unix, SVID, and X/Open|faq/posix_compatibility]]. +What this means, on a higher level, is that any program written for another POSIX-compliant system (such as Linux or newer UNIX systems), +can be built, installed, and run on the Hurd. This means that, unlike, say, Plan 9 or Haiku, there's a huge library of programs already availble for the Hurd (and we mean *natively*, not under an emulator or a compatibility layer)! + ## GPLv3 Compliant The Hurd is built from the ground up as 100% Free Software, so anybody can use, modify, and redistribute it as they please, under the terms of the [[GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3)|GPL]]! |