Followed the link until I here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/debian.html

So to try it I downloaded and ran in in qemu as per the instructions.

Playing around a bit I noticed this:

root@debian:~# uname -a
GNU debian 0.3 GNU-Mach 1.3.99/Hurd-0.3 i686-AT386 GNU
root@debian:~# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.1 (GNU 0.3 GNU-Mach 1.3.99/Hurd-0.3 i686-AT386)


So maybe you're right in calling it Linux ;)

When I read Wire I thought it referred to the short story by Arthur C. Clarke. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_by_Wire!_(short_story)