[GNUz] GNOME on GNU/Hurd

[Philip Charles]

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Nick Rout wrote:

> 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...

A good thing too.

A very brief explanation.

GNU/Hurd uses a micro kernel, at present GNUmach.  Hurd (which is in
sarge) runs on top of GNUmach.  Trying to run hurd without GNUmach is a no
no.  I will probably be shot for this, but you can think that GNUmach plus
hurd is somewhat similar to the Linux kernel (mutter, mutter, reservation,
reservation).

There are several ways of installing Debian GNU/Hurd, I would suggest
using the first CD from http://ftp.gnuab.org:/pub/debian-cd/K9/
Please read the README, yes the iso images are my work.
<commercial>You could buy the CD or DVD from me, Copyleft.</commercial>

With luck Gnome will be in the K10 dosc sets.

There are a number of links on the Copyleft site to GNU/Hurd
documentation.

Phil.


> 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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