Re: HURD info
rijn <rduca@casema.net> writes:
> I am a newbie, subscribed yesterday and see for the first time
> information about the GNOME/HURD OS.
I suppose you mean GNU/Hurd. GNOME is the application suite
running on X11, and there have been problems getting X to run on
GNU/Hurd at all.
> 1) Is HURD working for SMP (2 Intel Pentiums 200)?
No. There is some SMP support in GNUmach, but that hasn't been
tested for a long time and I've read it doesn't even compile any
more. I don't think anyone is trying to fix it.
Yesterday, Roland McGrath announced OSKit-Mach: a GNUmach variant
which uses OSKit device drivers. I don't know if those drivers
make any difference in SMP support, and it certainly isn't for
newbies. But take a look if you're interested. His message was
<199911260550.AAA25118@frob.com> on bug-hurd.
> 2) Can I still using Loadlin and initrd.img or something
GNU/Hurd requires a bootloader which supports the Multiboot
standard. I believe GRUB is the only one right now. But you
could have both GRUB and Loadlin in the same computer.
> 3) Building a monolite kernel without problems using a SCSI system
I don't understand. Mach is supposed to be a microkernel.
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