Re: [OT]: GNU/Hurd ready for a daily use (?)
Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:
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> Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es> writes:
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> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:36:33AM +0200, Xavier Maillard wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >=20=20
> > > I currently use GNU/Hurd at home but only to test few of my
> > > developments on this platform.
> > >=20=20
> > > Till now, I didn't think to switch to GNU/hurd definetely. I have
> > > reached a point where I would like to use only GNU/Hurd at home. Do
> > > you honestly think this is a crazy idea or does anybody has
> > > definetely choose to use GNU/Hurd for daily tasks (mail,
> > > programming, web, multimedia, ...).
> > >=20=20
> > > I really need feedback on that ;)
> >=20=20
> > It depends on what you need. If you need GNOME/KDE or stability or
> > good performance then GNU is not ready for you yet. As for web and
> > multimedia we don't have any sound support and we still don't have a
> > ported major browser (Mozilla, Galeon, etc)
>
> The main purpose would be to have my current real simple setup
> (X+Ion+zsh+Emacs+gcc) into the GNU.
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> And maybe I could begin to help in making
> development/packaging/whatever.
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> All I need is at leat a shell, emacs (and stuff that comes with it:
> bbdb, gnus, ...) and also a simple w3m (my main browser here).
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> Is it possible then ??
There was someone this list who tried to do thisq, but I think he
ended up giving up. That said, if you really want to try to run Hurd
as you main OS and you really only need a shell and emacs then I'd bet
you would be able to get by fairly well. Not sure how well w3m works
(never tied that). I haven't heard any disk corruption stories in a
long time, but if you do any significant amount of work you should be
extra careful to back it up somewhere.
Derek
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