On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 16:09:31 +0100
Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> Strictly speaking Linux is the kernel, pretty much all the
> basic userland in a Linux distro is from GNU which was originally a
> project to produce an open source unix (sensibly starting with a
> compiler) that never produced a kernel.
>
They did produce a kernel - GNU Mach is on release 1.8
However as it's a microkernel there's a load more stuff necessary to
make it useful, and the GNU Hurd is only on release 0.9
There's an unofficial Debian port running Hurd/Mach that I haven't
tried yet ...
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