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memoryhole writes: GNU Emacs, spurred by recent innovation in Microsoft’s labs, recently announced that Emacs will now include significant portions of code from the GNU Hurd, making the Emacs binary itself bootable. “The performance gains of operating in kernel mode were just too good to pass up. Besides, the Hurd started off as an Emacs fork anyway. It’s good to see the projects merging back together,” Richard Stallman was reported as saying. This will be the first kernel to support native Lisp interpretation since the venerable LispM, which pundits recall as being better than Unix.