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    In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people. —LinusTorvalds ([source | http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=fa.odppe6v.k4q5ra@ifi.uio.no])

The [GNU] [Hurd] (see [Hurd] about the expansion of the "Hurd" acronym) is the [GNU] project's replacement for the [Unix] [Kernel]. The [Hurd] is a collection of servers that run on the [Mach] microkernel to implement file systems, network [Protocol]s, file access control, and other features that are implemented by the [Unix] [Kernel] or similar kernels (such as [Linux]). Each server runs independently in user mode, with only the minimum permissions necessary for its job. DeviceDriver~s can run with user privileges and even load their own servers without rebooting or affecting the stability of other servers or other users on the system or requiring SuperUser privileges to do so.

This differs from monolithic kernel designs such as [Linux], where all of the code runs in [Kernel] space as a SuperUser; the downside is vastly increased complexity.

!! See also

* [Hurd wiki | http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Hurd/WebHome]
* [The Hurd project homepage | http://hurd.gnu.org]

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