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Jeedo Apprentice
Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 202 Location: Akureyri, Iceland
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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Hi.
I installed Debian GNU/Hurd some time ago on my athlon XP and found it quite lacking. Not the Hurd itself that is, because he i already knew it would be lacking but the documentation, there is almost none.
Another thing i didnt like was the debian part of it, not that i dont like debian i just dont know how to do some things in it like set the language to icelandic etc. little things like that.
Having said that i would like to help with this project. I am not a programmer but perhaps i could help with testing, Documentation or just about anything.
So what i'm asking is do you need none-programmer help with this project? |
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EvvL n00b
Joined: 28 Nov 2002 Posts: 16 Location: Stockton, California
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 6:06 pm Post subject: Help on the project |
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We could always use plenty of help. I'm looking into setting up a mailing list on my server for gentoo/hurd. I'm also going to be setting up a cvs server
and rsync server to use for future testing.
If anyone is interested in helping out you can contact me via any of my im services listed below. _________________ If Microsoft really wanted to kill open source, they'd put you all in the same room together with weapons and tequila.
-- John Jasen, LKML |
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kalisphoenix Apprentice
Joined: 28 Sep 2003 Posts: 211 Location: Ohio
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 6:51 am Post subject: |
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I can test this out on alternate architectures, if there's such an opening.
(Truth be told, this is about the only thing for which I'm useful).
I have a couple SPARCStations, MIPS... *lifts up dirty clothes* ... and a Mac that I could test this on. None are doing anything mission-critical right now. The SGI's that aren't doing anything are R4400 and R10K (but that's another project) and the Mac is a PPC603e sonneted up to G3/500MHz.
Just in case you can use it. |
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plate Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 1663 Location: Berlin
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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That's awfully nice, but the Hurd runs only on x86, doesn't it? |
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kalisphoenix Apprentice
Joined: 28 Sep 2003 Posts: 211 Location: Ohio
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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Oh.
I wasn't aware of that. A bit of a kick in the balls.
*nods at his NeXTStation* I thought it was fairly widely ported. |
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Abraxas l33t
Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 814
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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plate wrote: | That's awfully nice, but the Hurd runs only on x86, doesn't it? |
I thought the microkernel was all that really mattered. As long as mach or l4 or whatever they are using now runs on a specific architecture shouldn't the hurd run fine? |
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plate Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 1663 Location: Berlin
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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Honestly, I've got no idea where things are at with the Hurd, but the Hurd website speaketh thusly: Quote: | Currently, the Hurd runs on IA32 machines. The Hurd should, and probably will, be ported to other hardware architectures or other microkernels in the future. |
Now, let's briefly consider that it's taken them 10 years to get this far... |
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Pythagoras1 Guru
Joined: 29 Jul 2002 Posts: 352 Location: Burgas, Bulgaria
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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hurd is portable since that was the reason to continue this project ten years ago. but it seems there aren't any ports available yet. |
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Diezel l33t
Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 600 Location: Karjaa, Finland
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:47 am Post subject: |
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One more addicted Gentoo user signing up for testing of Gentoo / HURD.
Where is it possible to read about the progress on this?
// Diezel _________________ A bus station is where a bus stops, a train station is where a train stops. On
my desk I have a work station..
Nixadmins.net
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IvanHoe l33t
Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 658
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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Count me in. |
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pikapika n00b
Joined: 26 Apr 2003 Posts: 71
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Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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i'd be really intersted too
i tried the k4 hurd debian, but it's quite hard to manage ! |
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joeljkp Guru
Joined: 06 Mar 2004 Posts: 316 Location: Starkville, MS, USA
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Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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Sure, I'm definitely interested. |
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EvvL n00b
Joined: 28 Nov 2002 Posts: 16 Location: Stockton, California
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Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 9:26 pm Post subject: Progress Page |
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The current project page for the Gentoo Hurd Project is hurd.rustedhalo.net. The exact progress on each of the packages can be found at http://hurd.rustedhalo.net/status-system.php.
We can be contacted in #gentoo-hurd on FreeNode if anyone who wants to help out in the porting effort. We're fianlly getting close to building a stage3 tarball. Currenly we're 8 packages away from a stage3 tarball. _________________ If Microsoft really wanted to kill open source, they'd put you all in the same room together with weapons and tequila.
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ewan.paton Veteran
Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 1219 Location: glasgow, scotland
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 12:22 am Post subject: |
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has the portage on freebsd effort stalled i cant seem to find any info and emailed the dev mentioned offering my limited ability but didnt hear back
thanks for the hurd link i may giv it a bash once i get all my data backed up on dvd and repartition, any idea what the scsi suport is like _________________ Giay tay nam | Giay nam cao cap | Giay luoi |
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uglyb0b Apprentice
Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Posts: 280
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 12:52 am Post subject: |
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I've never really liked Hurd. I'm not a microkernel man, so Linux is good to make monolithic. _________________ Blog.
Linux geek and Mac whore. |
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homeobocks Guru
Joined: 19 Dec 2003 Posts: 345 Location: I'm from Canada, and they say I'm a little slow . . . eh?
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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I've checked out the project page, and it looks like The Gentoo GNU/HURD has made some progress. It looks to me like their goal is a Gentoo installation where you can, at one point, either emerge gentoo-sources or hurd-sources, and everything else is the same. _________________ HOW DO I SHOT WEB |
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codergeek42 Bodhisattva
Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 5142 Location: Anaheim, CA (USA)
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Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 3:21 am Post subject: |
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I was going to ask something like this, and in fact I searched google and found this. Is anyone here working on that? Or could I get more info on using Gentoo on the Hurd? Thanx... _________________ ~~ Peter: Programmer, Mathematician, STEM & Free Software Advocate, Enlightened Agent, Transhumanist, Fedora contributor
Who am I? :: EFF & FSF |
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dh003i n00b
Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Posts: 70
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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From a user's point of view, I see problems with HURD in that it just doesn't have the stability / features yet of the Linux kernel; which is really disappointing, after 20 years. Yes, it doesn't have nearly as many developers, but from the user's pov, that really doesn't matter.
And I don't understand why it's so great from a dev's pov either; there are newer ideas in kernels (exokernels), and surely developing the Linux kernel is interesting too. Why not just develop the Linux kernel until the architecture problems make a true microkernel more suitable for development, and then start working on taking all of the good code in Linux and modularizing it?
It doesn't even seem obvious to me that the Linux kernel is inherently architecturally flawed. After 14 or so years, development is still going along fine. When are we going to run into these problems? |
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Genone Retired Dev
Joined: 14 Mar 2003 Posts: 9522 Location: beyond the rim
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:28 am Post subject: |
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Congratulations, you might have broken the resurrect-ancient-thread record |
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dh003i n00b
Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Posts: 70
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:35 am Post subject: |
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Genone wrote: | Congratulations, you might have broken the resurrect-ancient-thread record |
hahahah, lol...I didn't realize this thread was 3 years old...talk about beating a dead horse, and then beating it some more. |
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brullonulla Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 117 Location: bologna
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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I'll ride the zombie... Well, it's quite sad that Gentoo/GNU Hurd is dead. I liked playing with the Hurd. It's an interesting but grotesquely crippled system as of today, having a working Gentoo install of it would maybe help attract people to it and fixing it. Also, it's a nice project in itself.
Too bad I have not the skills nor the free time to resurrect such a project. _________________ Google is the index to the unwritten Linux manual. |
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steveL Watchman
Joined: 13 Sep 2006 Posts: 5153 Location: The Peanut Gallery
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:55 am Post subject: |
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brullonulla wrote: | I'll ride the zombie... | LMAO thanks for that, I needed a chuckle ;P
Quote: | Well, it's quite sad that Gentoo/GNU Hurd is dead. I liked playing with the Hurd. It's an interesting but grotesquely crippled system as of today, having a working Gentoo install of it would maybe help attract people to it and fixing it. Also, it's a nice project in itself.
Too bad I have not the skills nor the free time to resurrect such a project. |
Yeah I liked playing with it a few years ago, but it didn't do much. It would be cool to get it running with Gentoo.. anyone else interested? I'm assuming it does ok at providing a base kernel? |
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brullonulla Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 117 Location: bologna
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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The base Hurd microkernel/servers combination basically works, although hardware support is terrible (basically the same of Linux 2.0 or 2.2 at maximum, and no sound) and it is pretty unstable. You are better using it on a spare old machine or on a VM. X works, although not so much X applications are known to work (forget Gnome or KDE out of the box).
I played with Debian GNU/Hurd K14 on VMWare for a while. It was funny, setting up the system is weirdly hackhish and I chatted nicely with Hurd developers on IRC. Unluckly I hadn't more time to play with it, now I'd like to reinstall it on a VM (they should even have ready-to-go QEMU images to download somewhere).
Screenshots of those times:
http://flickr.com/photos/brullonulla/364534025/
http://flickr.com/photos/brullonulla/379120295/ _________________ Google is the index to the unwritten Linux manual. |
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AngelKnight Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 127
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:10 am Post subject: Hurd with Gentoo Portage |
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This would be a neat toy. Unfortunately, I've got enough unsupported hardware that emulation is the only way for me to go with it. |
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brullonulla Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 117 Location: bologna
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:35 am Post subject: |
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Yes, emulation is pretty much the only way to go now.
By the way, this is pretty much the latest news I can find about the Gentoo GNU/Hurd project. Where is the guy who started it? Why did you stop?
I wonder if a better start is using a Debian GNU/Hurd install and "gentooize" it by installing emerge (python usually works on the Hurd), and tweaking until it all happily compiles and you can get rid of apt-get. But I am nothing near to a gentoo developer. _________________ Google is the index to the unwritten Linux manual. |
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