On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : *- Thomas Malloy wrote about "Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?) " : | ALPHA SPARC i386 HURD : | Which one of these things is not like the other? : | : | Since hurd is an operating system and not an architecture why does debian release packages for it. : | I thought DEBIAN was a distribution of linux, which runs on various hardware platforms. I have no : | objection to the hurd project. It is quite worth while on its own merits, but what does it have to do : | with linux or debian? : | : : The Hurd is a kernel not an OS. My take on this is that Debian is a : collection of apps and their philosophy of package managment and the : DFSG. The real name of Debian is 'Debian GNU/Linux', with the Hurd : kernel it will just be 'Debian GNU/Hurd' but all the top level will be : the same. The package managment the DFSG, etc will be identical.
In fact, it's conceivable that there could be a Debian GNU/blah release for any system blah, though the non-freeness of many of those systems makes that unlikely. Imagine "Debian GNU/FreeBSD" ... that would send some people straight over the edge. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
