After the SCO vs. IBM lawsuit, Source Code Origination (SCO) probably is the best acronym ever!

Furthermore:
Have you considered restarting the Hurd again, using Minix 3 instead of Mach?

MINIX 3 is a free (BSD license) operating system designed to be highly reliable, flexible, and secure. It is based on a tiny microkernel running in kernel mode with the rest of the operating system running as a collection of isolated, protected, processes in user mode. It is POSIX compliant and can run bash, emacs, gcc, gdb, the X Window System, etc.

The Debian project showed that it's possible to have a GNU system on top of the FreeBSD kernel. Would producing a GNU/kMinix system be more realistic than the Hurd becoming a production-ready, superior kernel?

Caldera open sourced Ancient Unices 12 years ago: http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Ca...

Peter H. Salus, in his book `The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin' quotes Thomas Bushnell (the initial Hurd architect) as saying:

My first choice was to take the BSD 4.4-Lite release and make a kernel. I knew the code, I knew how to do it. It is now perfectly obvious to me that this would have succeeded splendidly and the world would be a very different place today.
RMS wanted to work together with people from Berkeley on such an effort. Some of them were interested, but some seem to have been deliberately dragging their feet: and the reason now seems to be that they had the goal of spinning off BSDI. A GNU based on 4.4-Lite would undercut BSDI.
So RMS said to himself, "Mach is a working kernel, 4.4-Lite is only partial, we will go with Mach." It was a decision which I strongly opposed. But ultimately it was not my decision to make, and I made the best go I could at working with Mach and doing something new from that standpoint.
This was all way before Linux; we're talking 1991 or so.

In hindsight, do you regret that decision, or are you happy about Linux being the usual kernel in GNU systems (and the subsequent misnaming)?

As the subject of the post said, the list is incomplete, so it obviously lacks diversity.

I could go on with non-English literature, such as
Aleph
Blindness
Cronopios and Famas
Fictions
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Book of Disquiet
The Idiot
The Sound of the Mountain
The Tale of Genji
The Tin Drum
The Trial
War with the Newts ...
but you don't want me to list my whole collection. Hopefully those are enough to add some depth to the previous list, even though I didn't include any non-fiction.

A Confederacy of Dunces
Catch-22
Dharma Bums
Lord of the Flies
Momo
On the Road
Siddharta
The Golden Notebook
The Grapes of Wrath
The Razor's Edge
A Clockwork Orange
Brave New World
Player Piano
Slaughterhouse Five
Snowcrash
The Diamond Age
The Dispossessed
The Island
The Stand ...

I'm of course thinking about myman, moon-buggy, bastet, nethack, overkill, etc.

Hi Bruce,
aren't the OpenBSD guys at odds with the Apache 2.0 license?
AFAIK, that's the reason they still provide only Apache 1.3.x.

Wouldn't be better to recommend the ISC license?
Thanks for your insight.

Putting my desktop in a tiny Window is just crazy. I have a large screen monitor for a reason.

I guess you're talking about the Folder View plasmoid. Please notice that it can work fullscreen, thus emulating the classic desktop.

However, I prefer to have a completely clean desktop, because it's always covered by windows anyway.

Thank you! :-)