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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:48:27AM -0600, Gabriel wrote: |
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> > A question -- could you give us a quick overview of the differences between HURD and |
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> > the Linux kernel? I'm curious about what new things HURD offers. |
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> This deserves a longer answer and I will post one when I have a bigger block |
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> of time, but a few observations: |
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[snip-o-rama] |
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> BTW, I am not a Hurd developer; just a guy that installed it for kicks, so if |
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> my information is not factual, please keep me honest. I am enthusiastic about |
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> this because the most recent debian builds are better than I think a lot of |
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> people realize, and there is a lot of opportunity to shape the way it evolves, |
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> and the Portage system sounds like the right way, the GNU way, to do it. |
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OK, nifty. Would you be interested in looking into this? The first step would |
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be to port Portage to HURD. You'd need to port python if it isn't yet available |
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on HURD, but that's about it. The next step would be to create a bunch of ebuilds, |
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and the third step would be to rebuild a complete system using portage. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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