From: "Wayne DePrince Jr." <waynedpj@ingiro.xyz>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: info on move to GNU+Hurd and deprecating Linux-libre
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 14:43:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <198ba877bc153d1303868eb1d7442c43b29f6ed0.camel@ingiro.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200406184017.GA4196@jasmine.lan>
On Mon, 2020-04-06 at 14:40 -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 02:01:36PM -0400, Wayne DePrince Jr. wrote:
> > ahoy all,
> >
> > hope that everyone is as well as can be.
> >
> > i saw the new post on deprecating Linux in Guix in favor of
> > GNU+Hurd and was just wondering if there is some background on the
> > decision? i had searched in the mailing list and IRC archives but
> > have
> > not found anything.
>
> Every good joke has an element of truth, and this was an optimistic
> April Fools joke.
>
> Work on the Hurd is progressing more quickly than it has in the past,
> and of course we like to use GNU software wherever we can.
>
> I doubt that Linux support will be deprecated or removed for a long
> time, if ever. It's one of the most useful free software programs :)
LOLOL! wow, consider me an April FOOL!
with some of the recent rumblings about the Linux kernel i thought
maybe i had missed something bigger .. and apparently i did: April 1 :)
Leo, thank you for pointing out my FOOLishness ;)
peace, w
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-06 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-06 18:01 info on move to GNU+Hurd and deprecating Linux-libre Wayne DePrince Jr.
2020-04-06 18:40 ` Leo Famulari
2020-04-06 18:43 ` Wayne DePrince Jr. [this message]
2020-04-06 18:47 ` Wayne DePrince Jr.
2020-04-06 18:52 ` Leo Famulari
2020-04-06 21:22 ` aviva
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