From 941b013b236d0d51a1b65d6e9a74947e046908a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: MutoShack Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 21:14:01 +0100 Subject: Praise for POSIX compliance --- advantages.mdwn | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'advantages.mdwn') diff --git a/advantages.mdwn b/advantages.mdwn index 00c3c730..9442b017 100644 --- a/advantages.mdwn +++ b/advantages.mdwn @@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ For all intents and purposes, the Hurd provides the same facilities as a modern development closely tracks [[standards such as ANSI/ISO, BSD, POSIX, Single Unix, SVID, and X/Open|faq/posix_compatibility]]. +What this means, on a higher level, is that any program written for another POSIX-compliant system (such as Linux or newer UNIX systems), +can be built, installed, and run on the Hurd. This means that, unlike, say, Plan 9 or Haiku, there's a huge library of programs already availble for the Hurd (and we mean *natively*, not under an emulator or a compatibility layer)! + ## GPLv3 Compliant The Hurd is built from the ground up as 100% Free Software, so anybody can use, modify, and redistribute it as they please, under the terms of the [[GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3)|GPL]]! -- cgit v1.2.3