Hurd queries

[Bob Ham <bob@ham.org>]

Hi all

I've a few quesitons about the Hurd that I was hoping could have some
light shed on them: firstly, has any thought been put into how sound
will be handled? If not, does anybody know if it would be possible to
port OSS/Lite or ALSA to the Hurd?

Is there going to be a Hurd TCP/IP stack developed? I know pfinet was
carved out of Linux, and there's a 'newpfinet' directory in the hurd CVS
repository (even though it's empty.)

Has anyone looked at GGI's KGI kernel drivers (ie, what fb came from)? I
would imagine that the Mach environment would be ideal to host graphics
drivers (as opposed to a monolithic kernel.) Or, are people happy with
X?

Lastly, not so much to do with the Hurd and more GNU/Hurd, there's an
nfsd executable in /sbin that dpkg doesn't know about and for which
there seems to be no documentation. There's an 'nfsd' subsection in the
Distributed File Systems chapter of the Hurd Reference Manual that is
sadly empty. Running it (with --help), it moans about
/var/state/misc/nfsd.index not existing. Is there any documentation on
how to get this nfsd to do its stuff, or does anybody know?

Cheers,

Bob

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