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Have you Spender or anyone looked at the GNU Hurd microkernel and server programs?
Are they more secure or do they have bigger issues than the Linux kernel does?

They say cause the servers run in userspace under non-root users that they would be more secure (at least in terms of affecting other parts of the system).

Some links about the advantages of the Hurd microkernel system:

http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/advantages.html

http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd.html

http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/mailing_lists.html

A somewhat analogous question would be:

Is it more pleasant riding a unicorn than a horse?

-Brad

spender wrote:A somewhat analogous question would be:

Is it more pleasant riding a unicorn than a horse?

-Brad

Believe it or not there is some distributions that exist for GNU Hurd.
Besides Debian Hurd maybe a better one is Arch Hurd http://www.archhurd.org

The Debian Hurd distribution http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd

"The Hurd is under active development, but does not provide the performance and stability you would expect from a production system. Also, only about every second Debian package has been ported to the GNU/Hurd. There is a lot of work to do before we can make a release."