On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:03:34AM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > (sorry, Alfred--you got the name wrong; does this mean that The > Hurd is running well enough for you that you don't [need] to touch > Linux anymore? :)) > > I'm almost there! Corking :) > If there happens to be a Linux swap-signature (or anything else ;)) > ok the partition, it's likely to be gone by the time that The Hurd > is done with the partition. > > This is not entierly true, swapon can care about the signature if you > tell it to (the -s switch) Ah--this is cool. I don't remember where I got that bit of misinformation, but I guess I know better, now :) > Would you like to help us stop the confusing that Linux is an > operating system by calling it GNU/Linux? Definitely--and I would've said "GNU/Linux" if that's what I had meant ;) Really, I was alluding to deficiencies of The Hurd as compared to Linux (ahem: the kernel), like the lack of all of the whizzy hardware-drivers and support for big disk-filesystems with journalling and being able to run without swap and with LOTS of RAM and speed and stability and... (you get the point ;), and this is all kernel-stuff, right?) :\ Though..., it's hard to tell when people -do- actually mean what they're saying when so many of them are too confused--d'oh! ;) Just put me on your list as `already converted', so you remember not to worry about me in the future (I even told the Western-Digital tech-support guy that I was running "... Debian--GNU on Linux", when my last hard disk died--then I had to un-confuse him) :) -- "Saying that complexity isn't real because it "was invented somewhere else" is the most useless kind of wishful thinking." --Allen Short
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