Re: easier install ideas
Hi,
Combining Jeff's idea and the question that Mark Brown recently posed
(about getting access to a Hurd box to test something) I got the following
idea. Is it possible that someone gives public (restricted?, anonymous?)
access to his/her Hurd box for Newb's like me who are interested in the
Hurd but don't have the time/spare machine yet to set it up themselves. I
would certainly like to look around on a Hurd box / do some userland
experiments on it. I myself am already interested enough that I will
install it sooner or later anyway, but it might draw other newbees over
that line...
Or does this provide possible hackers with too good a platform that they
can execute their evil schemes from?
Steven.
On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 13:21:22 Jeff Davies wrote:
> Hurd installation is not currently something for the atechnical.
> Perhaps to show people that hurd actually works, a demolinux style CD
> could be made.
> The demolinux cd - (see www.demolinux.org) ignores the hard disk, and
> just
> runs off CD. A demo CD might contain just hurd, some tools and utils like
> vi
> et al, (perhaps gcc as well would be useful - then people could compile
> using
> it too), and XFree86 and Mozilla. (and an easy ppp interface like kppp or
>
> gnome-ppp).
>
> This is (1) a million times easier than making a easier to install kit
> like
> Mandrake GNU/Linux and (2) Removes the problem of changing from LILO to
> GRUB
> for many Linux users, and removes even greater impendiments to Win32
> users.
>
> It would be a bit like that QNX demo disk (except it would be a boot CD
> not
> floppy).
>
> Jeff Davies.
>
>
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