Linus Benedict Torvalds: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT [1991]

"Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows)"

:)

"The GNU Hurd is under active development. Because of that, there is no stable version." -- http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html

Hurd didn't boot until 1994, and didn't really pick up until 1996.

http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history.html

hurd is the operating system for duke nukem forever, didn't know that? ;-)

The Hurd kernel is used today. I know! When I worked for the NSA, all of our Cray supercomputers ran it. It can divide by zero and that is how we cracked passwords, AES 256, etc. It's a wonderful, albeit hippie-liberal kernel.

"[...] so for those hoping for an alternative to minix-386, please ignore me"

Sorry. Won't do you this favor...

Wonder if he ever got through to Phil...