Comments on: Arch Hurd?

By: Hubert Lombard

Hubert Lombard — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:08:38 +0000

Here are some good news from the Hurd
Thanks for this project, i hope installing it soon and provide graphisms if I can and if I have time.
Good continuation !

By: Osbaldo

Osbaldo — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:43:50 +0000

Good luck with the project!

Some time ago someone started with gentoo-hurd but sadly the project is dead. I hope you can ‘finish’ the project!

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Spork Bomb :: Arch Hurd — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:48:33 +0000

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By: 2010 sera nerdz : Arch Hurd — Hippopota.me/blog : le blog de deK

2010 sera nerdz : Arch Hurd — Hippopota.me/blog : le blog de deK — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:41:22 +0000

[...] Allan McRae l’a annoncé hier, la création d’un nouveau port de Arch, vers rien de moins que le Hurd, le microkernel légendaire et vaporeux de RMS et ses amis [...]

By: Dan McGee

Dan McGee — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:49:49 +0000

Woo, another OS for pacman to conquer!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:31:39 +0000

@Carlos Costa: I was looking around the Hurd mailing lists today and, from what I can see, there is work on updating the driver glue code they’re using so it’ll work with Linux 2.6 drivers, as well as stuff from the BSDs.
Hopefully we’ll have access to more or less all of the hardware with a Linux driver soonish

By: Carlos Costa

Carlos Costa — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:04:31 +0000

I’m glad to see your effort

Except by the fact hurd doesn’t have a lot of drivers (compared with linux) and there is no sound subsystem like ALSA, Hurd can be used well (with some performance issues, off course).

Did you send a e-mail to hurd-devel list? they will be very happy to see your initiative and, in my opinion, you will have a lot of help from there.

I’ll try to help you too.

BR,
Carlos.

By: catwell

catwell — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:49:38 +0000

I was always interested in microkernels too, but I don’t really like the Hurd because, well, it’s GNU (meaning: the opposite of KISS principles for many things). Also, it destroyed my Linux partitions last time I tried to install it, but it was the first release of Debian GNU/Hurd so it has probably improved since. I saw a demonstration at Libre Software Meeting 2008 and I was quite impressed with the “everything is a filesystem” approach, especially with XMLFS.

I still think that the short term future for microkernels is Minix 3 rather that Hurd, because it’s simpler and I would say more functional. I tried to port Pacman to it earlier but I have to give up because of time issues, maybe I will give it a try again later (and your port to Hurd could prove quite useful – actually the most difficult part is not really Pacman itself but libalpm).

By: eli

eli — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:29:33 +0000

how cute. ;D

By: Arch Hurd « Seamos realistas…

Arch Hurd « Seamos realistas… — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:45:31 +0000

[...] ha llevado a leer esta nota. El proyecto para para que Arch Linux use Hurd como kernel ha nacido. Allan McRae dice en su blog que le habia llamado la atencion el desarrollo de GNU Hurd, ademas de un post en [...]