GNU/Hurd aims at being a general-purpose Operating System with a strong emphasis on flexibility and freedom for the user, and thus based on a design made of a micro-kernel surrounded by a hurd of userland servers. It has however a long-term vaporware reputation. Development has indeed been relatively dormant for some time, but recent regain of interest has brought interesting improvements and stabilization, to the point that there will be a non-official release of the GNU/Hurd variant of Debian Wheezy, with about 75% of the Debian packages, including classical graphical desktop application (gnome, gnumeric, firefox, ...)