Re: GNU/Hurd newbie
At 06:52 PM 10/1/99 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:11:31AM -0400, Christopher Barry wrote:
>> I see that XFree86 says the latest version is GNU/Hurd compatable.
>
>But the Hurd is not XFree compatible :)
>
>We are working on it, but please bear with our slowness. It is trickier than
>it seems. All prior successes to get it running were hacks, and we want to
>do it proper now.
> ...
>It is definitely usable to hack it and compile stuff and develop it and so
>on. It is defintiely usable if you prefer console over X (as I do). Exim,
mutt,
>lynx, etc are available and run.
>
Is this strictly true? I was under the impression that you could run
X applications, but you could not run an X server. That is, you could
have your development system running an X server with Linux, and your
test system running xterms or xemacs on the Hurd.
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