Hacker News with Generative AI: GNU

The GNU Shepherd (gnu.org)
The Shepherd is a service manager written in Guile Scheme that looks after the herd of daemons running on the system.

Operating Systems, GNU, Service Management, Programming Languages, Scheme

6 points by mgd 37 days ago | 0 comments

Guix/Hurd on a ThinkPad X60 (guix.gnu.org)
A lot has happened with respect to the Hurd since our Childhurds and GNU/Hurd Substitutes post. As long as two years ago some of you have been asking for a progress update and although there have been rumours on a new blog post for over a year, we were kind of waiting for the rumoured x86_64 support.

Operating Systems, Linux, GNU, Hardware

61 points by rekado 53 days ago | 2 comments

All (386) GNU Packages (directory.fsf.org)
GNU is a Unix-like operating system that is free software—it respects your freedom.

GNU, Operating Systems, Free Software

5 points by htfy96 83 days ago | 1 comments

The GNU Shepherd Manual (gnu.org)
This manual documents the GNU Daemon Shepherd, or GNU Shepherd for short. The Shepherd looks after system services, typically daemons. It is used to start and stop them in a reliable fashion. For instance, it will dynamically determine and start any other services that our desired service depends upon.

Operating Systems, Linux, System Administration, Daemon Management, GNU

6 points by ossusermivami 85 days ago | 0 comments

Siduction Linux (siduction.org)
Siduction is an operating system based on the Linux kernel and the GNU project. In addition, there are applications and libraries from Debian.

Linux, Operating Systems, GNU, Debian

9 points by indigodaddy 107 days ago | 9 comments

GNU.org was down (gnu.org)
GNU is the only operating system developed specifically to give its users freedom. What is GNU, and what freedom is at stake?

GNU, Operating Systems, Freedom, Software

8 points by auscompgeek 110 days ago | 2 comments

Intel Further Speeds Up Strnlen() in the GNU C Library for Recent Intel/AMD CPUs (phoronix.com)

Software, Optimization, C Library, CPUs, GNU

6 points by peutetre 149 days ago | 0 comments

GNU considered harmful (By me, here's why) (oliverkwebb.github.io)

GNU, Open Source, Operating Systems, Criticism

8 points by oliverkwebb 153 days ago | 3 comments

GNU APL 1.9 Released (lists.gnu.org)

New Releases, Programming Languages, GNU

10 points by rhabarba 160 days ago | 2 comments

GNU Justified Public License (tom7.org)

GNU, Open Source, Licensing

85 points by weinzierl 225 days ago | 58 comments

Exploring GNU extensions in the Linux kernel (maskray.me)

Linux, Operating Systems, GNU, Kernel

71 points by ingve 250 days ago | 8 comments