hurd-amd64
Any guesses how long until there is a useful working port of Hurd? I mean am I one of a few that is interested?
How long? Some non-zero number of time units.
I wish I would have the skills to participate on that marvelous adventure.
As I understood, the lake of people involved is what slows Hurd (or at least the more important factor of slowing it down).
Don't get too far away, the trisquel team could very well use some help too :)
If I had to choose (witch is not the case), I would choose working on Hurd because if GNU has it's own Kernel, Linux would not be needed anymore and so Linux would not have to be freed.
It's better to be based upon a really free kernel then on an non-free kernel that is then freed.
The problem with that is it does depend on drivers from Linux 2.0. Now they are trying to implement the rumpkernel, in my understanding again takes drivers from other kernels and runs them.