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On the spare partition of my home box, I recently got a fully functional hurd installation. I've tried this a few times over the past few years and never had ...
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Any Hurd users out here?
On the spare partition of my home box, I recently got a fully functional hurd installation. I've tried this a few times over the past few years and never had it work so well. It was a ***** to get set up, but has been really fun to play with, and seems really fast. I like the daemon control quite a bit.
I was wondering if anyone has used the Hurd microkernel before for GNU/OS rather than just the linux kernels we usually use?
I think it has great potential, though it's installation is much less intuitive than OpenBSD's
*Edit: Well, after going through untold trouble so many times in the past trying to get it working by following the manual I've found this extremely easy setup through crosshurd: CrossHurd.
We have a BSD forum, maybe we can get a HURD one to generate some interest. Last edited by genesus; 03-11-2008 at 05:12 PM. Reason: *Added crosshurd link
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To be honest, I have never even heard of HURD.
That is, until you brought it up. It seems like something I would like to try, though. I have been using a few other flavors of UNIX at work recently (AIX, HP-UX) and they both have features that I find very nice, most notably, HP's privrun which is what sudo should be. Maybe I'll give this a try.
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That's pretty much the reason I've stayed away from it. I'm an end-user first and a programmer second. These days I use an OS if it does the menial tasks for me. If not, let someone else have the headache.
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That's true, but man is it fast...I think that the novelty and uniqueness of it allows me to overlook certain things that I wouldn't accept in a linux distro for my main computer.
Thrillhouse, I've been reading over the privrun page on the hp site, now that has some pretty interesting options.Last edited by genesus; 03-11-2008 at 09:35 PM. Reason: *Re: privrun
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Like Haiku it's not finished yet.
I'm keeping an eye out though. It looks promising Can't tell an OS by it's GUI
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Let's make our own distro with HURD, and call it HURRRRRRd.
Just for laughs, that's all.
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Hurrrrrrdbuntu??
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HurrrrrrrrrrrXuEdKDEuntu, dude.
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Oh yes, it all makes sense to me now. Originally Posted by SZF2001 Can't tell an OS by it's GUI
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isnt hurd just a different kernel?
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