Editing GNU Hurd (section)

== Name and logo ==
In December 1991 the primary architect of the Hurd described the name as a [[mutual recursion|mutually]] [[recursive acronym]]:<ref name="Koen Vervloesem, 2010">{{cite web |last=Vervloesem |first=Koen |date=July 7, 2010 |title=The Hurd: GNU's quest for the perfect kernel |publisher=[[LWN.net]] |url=https://lwn.net/Articles/395150/ |access-date=October 5, 2012}}</ref>
{{Blockquote|text=It's time [to] explain the meaning of "Hurd". "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons". And, then, "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth". We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.|author=[[Thomas Bushnell|Thomas (then Michael) Bushnell]] }}

As both ''hurd'' and ''hird'' are [[homophone]]s of the English word ''herd'', the full name ''GNU Hurd'' is also a play on the words ''[[herd]] of [[wildebeest|gnus]]'', reflecting how the kernel works.<ref name="hurd-name" />

The logo is called the ''Hurd boxes'' and it also reflects on architecture. The logo is a graph where nodes represent the Hurd kernel's servers and directed edges are [[Inter-process communication|IPC]] messages.<ref name="Koen Vervloesem, 2010"/>