Comment In Torvalds' words (Score 1) 3
"a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)", "It is NOT protable" (sic) "(uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have"
Except that GNU HURD is still far from practical and Linux has already been ported to every CPU under the sun :)