Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es> writes: On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:36:33AM +0200, Xavier Maillard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I currently use GNU/Hurd at home but only to test few of my > > developments on this platform. > > > > 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, ...). > > > > I really need feedback on that ;) > > 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 ?? zeDek -- What the world needs now is killfiles that actually kill.
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