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In article <3leb5c$dqk@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> natewild@mbnet.mb.ca (Nathan T. Wild) writes:
> Hurd may have been a good idea a while ago, but it's niche has been filled
> by Linux.  Hurd seems to have a lot more development required, yet I have had
> a stable and productive Linux system for over a year now!

This same sort of statement has been made throughout history, i.e.
"I don't need one of them new-fangled auto-mobiles, my horse and
carriage gets me everywhere I need to go".  "You're not getting me up
in one of those airplanes, I can drive everywhere I need to go.",
"Why should I use Linux?  Minix does the job for me.", &c.

Just because something fills a niche *now* doesn't mean that it will
be able to do so in the future, or that the niche will even exist!

The best thing Linux has done is relieve the pressure on the Hurd
developers, so that they can carefully proceed towards completion
without being rushed into producing yet another slip-shod OS.  Also,
being free software, it has probably helped enlarge the ranks of GNU
followers.  Beyond that, Linux is just another Unix; a twenty year old
technology that even its inventors have abandoned for newer
technologies (Plan 9).

trent...