Re: GNU/Hurd and Xfree
Does this mean that my attempt to build Xfree86 will fail unless I
hack on it first?
Cheers,
David
> 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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