Shepherd is not a kernel, Hurd is, and shepherd page mentions a relation, that d... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		agumonkey on Oct 15, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What is Nix and why you should try it Shepherd is not a kernel, Hurd is, and shepherd page mentions a relation, that dmd/shepherd was developped closely to Hurd but it not the same thing.

nextos on Oct 15, 2017 [–]

Sure, I wrote herd not Hurd!

herd is the commandname of Shepherd client:

https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/manual/shepherd.html

jitl on Oct 15, 2017 | [–]

Ah — confusing as Herd is the second recursive acronym of Hurd... sorry to pedantic :-)

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact