From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Sat, 7 Feb 2026 20:39:08 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   > On 07 Feb 2026 19:25:32 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:   
   >   
   >> Le 07-02-2026, Mekeor Melire  a écrit :   
   >>>   
   >>> Here's a blog post reporting that the Guix community managed to get   
   >>> Guix GNU/Hurd running on Thinkpad X60:   
   >>>   
   >>> https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2024/hurd-on-thinkpad/   
   >>   
   >> Well, they can manage to include it. They can't finish it. It will be   
   >> almost thirty years by now I here that hurd is almost ready.   
   >   
   > GNU Hurd continues to be an object lesson in why microkernels are a bad   
   > idea.   
      
   The real object lesson is spending 30 years trying to make the Mach kernel   
   work. The concept was interesting but after a while you either go hybrid   
   like Apple or conclude it was another academic idea that didn't pan out.   
      
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