"Andreas L. Gustafsson" <ante@update.uu.se> writes: > Huh!? Is there two different kernels available? Yes, GNU Mach and oskit Mach. Debian GNU/Hurd will install the former. I don't think there deb packages for oskit mach, you'll have to roll your own. Searching the archives of this list for "oskit" should provide plenty of good information ... better than I could provide at least. > It's not a good way to spread the word if you have to search the archiove > of this list to find such info. Efforts to document the Hurd are few and not concentrated. Most people active in the Hurd area would rather compile more stuff/hack code/write to this list. > Seriously, I do think that to make Hurd more popular and more widely used > we need to move away from the .deb way only as fast as possible. What Farid said: nobody stops anybody from doing things differently. > The most popular Linux systems out there is still rpm based, and to > attract more developers to Hurd I think we need a distro based on > something else than .deb, but I think that this might not be the > best place to discuss it. I for one, would be interested in how deb/dpkg does not work for you. I think pointing out these problems is still apporpriate for a Debian list, as these could be genuine bugs in dpkg (i.e. we could make it better), things that Debian GNU/Hurd does wrong, or simply misunderstandings! Of course, the details of implementing a "ports" or "rpm" or whatever-based Hurd distributions are not really apporpriate here. BTW, your popularity argument has a serious flaw: the most common way to distribute software is not "rpm", but "zip"/"exe". -- Robbe
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