[GNUz] GNOME on GNU/Hurd

[Nick Rout]

Rik, I am sure this is both on topic and welcome on the CLUG list, same
as BSD and the like.

Also on the clug list you will catch Philip Charles who has done a lot
of work on hurd. 

Look forward to a demo...


On Thu, 26 May 2005 13:53:47 +1200
Richard Tindall wrote:

> Hey, thanks for that Tim. You've prompted me to ask something for which 
> I was unsure of the welcome on a Linux list..
> 
> Timothy Musson wrote:
> 
> >>From this week's Debian newsletter[*]:
> >
> >``Michael Banck managed[1] to get GNOME [to] compile and run on
> >GNU/Hurd, albeit with some caveats and loose end
> >
> Debian Sarge offered me a Hurd package, then a recent update, both of 
> which I installed and gave to GRUB. My first Hurd boot!!.. Whoopdy-do.. ;-)
> 
> Anyway, it starts & does some normal looking initialisation for a few 
> seconds, then halts briefly on something like 'no bootstrap code to 
> load', and reboots the system. So.. where is Hurd's operating system?..
> 
> Thanks for providing some clues as to where I might research this 
> perplexing question, in my off-time.. ha!
> 
> I'll go and have a read now.
> 
> Cheers, Rik
> 
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