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@@ -135,15 +135,17 @@ recursive acronyms. <H3><A HREF="#TOCstatus" NAME="status">Status of the project</A></H3> <P> The Hurd, together with the GNU Mach microkernel, the GNU C Library -and the other GNU programs, provides a rather complete and usable -operating system today. It is not ready for production use, as there -are still many bugs and missing features. However, it should be a -good base for further development and non-critical application usage. +and the other GNU and non-GNU programs in the GNU system, provide a +rather complete and usable operating system today. It is not ready +for production use, as there are still many bugs and missing features. +However, it should be a good base for further development and +non-critical application usage. <P> -GNU/Hurd is completely self-contained (you can compile all parts of -the Hurd system from GNU/Hurd itself). You can run several GNU/Hurd -systems in parallel, and debug even critical servers in another GNU/Hurd -with gdb. You can run the X window system, applications that use it, +The GNU system (also called GNU/Hurd) is completely self-contained +(you can compile all parts of it using GNU itself). You can run +several instances of the Hurd in parallel, and debug even critical +servers in one Hurd instance with gdb running on another Hurd +instance. You can run the X window system, applications that use it, and advanced server applications like the Apache webserver. <P> On the negative side, the support for character devices (like sound |