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Minix was the teaching OS that Andrew Tannenbaum created, and on which Linus began to build Linux. IIRC Linux originally used the Minix file system before ext2 came along. It was also partly from frustrations with the limitations of Minix that Linus created Linux. They have his book at my old schoo...

I like the emacs jokes.

Well to bad it's fake, but it seems from the gnu site that hurd is working.

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

With 10 min of searching I found a live CD using Hurd

http://www.superunprivileged.org/hurd/live-cd/