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  • The GNU Hurd. Keep laughing, it will get there.

    Edit: instead of outright promoting the GNU Hurd, I will give my reasons.

    1. The architecture of the Hurd is very scalable compared to other kernels. It does not need much rewriting to adapt to modern technology. Rewriting the Hurd in rust is much easier than other kernels.

    2. It is a GNU project so if it does succeed, we can spread the Free software philosophy to others. It also means that corpo’s cannot influence it.

    3. It is GPLv2 or later, so that is nice to have.

    4. It holds all the benefits of a microkernel.

    There is probably more, but they are not as important to me personally.














  • I have also heard of solaris, but never had a clue what it was.

    I am pretty sure that is the enterprise OS owned by Oracle. It is closed source.

    All I want is an os I can trust, that is logical, works, and stays out of my way.

    NetBSD or openBSD is your best bet. You will have to install the desktop environment yourself though, unless you like their cwm. FreeBSD is the most popular BSD, but they are using AI to find security vulnerabilities.


  • Time to look around again I guess, I’ve never looked into BSD, Hurd, Solaris…

    The GNU Hurd is probably not going to be for you unless you have Ethernet and an old thinkpad or dell laptop. In the mailing list, I know the main devs are usually against ai contributions, although I am unaware if they have a policy.

    I would recommend using netBSD because the devs have a clear stance on no rust and no llm usage. There is also openBSD which has the best code quality of the three BSD’s, and I think had 2 vulnerabilities in a decade.