That's true. We are developing the Hurd, which is an advanced kernel.
We started the Hurd because there was no free kernel, and a complete
free operating system requires a kernel. (Linux did not exist then.)
We're continuing to work on the Hurd because after doing so much work,
it would be a shame not to finish it.
and that we were at best
hangers-on.
The Hurd isn't meant to express any opinion about any person. I'm
sorry if you took it that way, but that meaning was not intended.
I use GNU/Linux all the time, and that's what I recommend to everyone
who asks what system to install. That's what we install at the FSF,
by preference, when we get a machine. If this makes some people
"hangers on", I must be one of them.
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