On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 03:10:08PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 06:58:46PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Right now, the Debian GNU/Hurd port is not complete. > > > > Part of making it complete is bringing the packages and the policy > > together. Certainly as long as there is a difference, it is not ready > > to release. > > Just for some perspective, the thing that's stopping it from release > is that it doesn't work (it's been a year since I last knew what was > wrong, but missing partitioning tools, firewalling tools, an installer, > and massive incompatible bin format changes come to mind; I've no idea > how accurate they are as criticisms today though). We have partition tools (GNU parted), the installer is a big hack (but I think some changes in the Debian infrastructure are needed to have a good installer) and the TCP/IP stack is the biggest hack of the whole system if you exclude Mach. We need to write a TCP/IP for the Hurd, it's just that everybody is busy with other things. I think the things that's stopping it from a release are the number of packages ported, Marcus could correct me here if I'm right. There are snapshot CDs of the system released every now and then however. > Once you've got a > system that *works*, that you can stick on the Internet and not worry > too much about, that you can install, and so forth, you're done. GNU/Hurd works pretty fine for a workstation, but a server running it won't survive being slashdotted. Other than that I've heard that somebody managed to run a webserver on GNU/Hurd with uptimes of couple of weeks. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org IRC ID: jeroen@openprojects GNU supporter - http://www.gnu.org
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