From 339f6bb7a9341640ce749e82c557eb068ea5caf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard M. Stallman" Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 00:57:42 +0000 Subject: Clarify use of GNU, Hurd, and GNU/Hurd. --- hurd.html | 18 ++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'hurd.html') diff --git a/hurd.html b/hurd.html index 8f8d246e..f0a3eb15 100644 --- a/hurd.html +++ b/hurd.html @@ -135,15 +135,17 @@ recursive acronyms.

Status of the project

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.

-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.

On the negative side, the support for character devices (like sound -- cgit v1.2.3