Anonymous coward <ddavies@ddavies.net> writes: > Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes: > > > --=-=-= > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es> writes: > > > > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:36:33AM +0200, Xavier Maillard wrote: > > > > Hi, =20=20 I currently use GNU/Hurd at home but only to test > > > > few of my developments on this platform. =20=20 Till now, I > > > > didn't think to switch to GNU/hurd definetely. I have reached a > > > > point where I would like to use only GNU/Hurd at home. Do you > > > > honestly think this is a crazy idea or does anybody has > > > > definetely choose to use GNU/Hurd for daily tasks (mail, > > > > programming, web, multimedia, ...). =20=20 I really need > > > > feedback on that ;) > > > =20=20 It depends on what you need. If you need GNOME/KDE or > > > stability or good performance then GNU is not ready for you > > > yet. As for web and multimedia we don't have any sound support > > > and we still don't have a ported major browser (Mozilla, Galeon, > > > etc) > > > > The main purpose would be to have my current real simple setup > > (X+Ion+zsh+Emacs+gcc) into the GNU. > > > > And maybe I could begin to help in making > > development/packaging/whatever. > > > > All I need is at leat a shell, emacs (and stuff that comes with it: > > bbdb, gnus, ...) and also a simple w3m (my main browser here). > > > > Is it possible then ?? > > There was someone this list who tried to do thisq, but I think he > ended up giving up. That said, if you really want to try to run Hurd > as you main OS and you really only need a shell and emacs then I'd > bet you would be able to get by fairly well. Not sure how well w3m > works (never tied that). I haven't heard any disk corruption stories > in a long time, but if you do any significant amount of work you > should be extra careful to back it up somewhere. Ok. That said, I remember I did have troubles using the Hurd here due to IRQ problem with my NIC. Is IRQ sharing fixed now ? zeDek -- "Der Steuermann umgab sich gern mit Nullen. Er hielt sie fuer Rettungsringe" (Lec)
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