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Matthew Kennedy wrote: |
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> This is just my own opinion as a user... |
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> It really does matter to some, including myself. I direct you to the |
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> Debian mail archives for the reasons why "GNU/" is correct :-) Plus it |
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> would be cool if newbies stopped asking me "Where can I download Linux |
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> 7.3?" and getting my stock, but confusing response, "You can get Linux |
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> from ftp.kernel.org" |
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But why don't call it Gentoo Apache/Trolltech/BSD/KDE/GNU Linux ;-p |
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Just kidding. I think we don't need such debates, because this |
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distro will never be for newbies (or at list this is by humile opinion), |
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they |
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will be more happy with SuSe or Mandrake. People who know something |
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about linux will know what's the GNU thing and will see that |
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Gentoo Linux is something concrete as opposed to Gentoo Hurd, for example, |
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wich is a set of software organized by a team of people and choosen, patched |
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and grouped together to make a complete system for a given platform. |
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The fact that it is 80% GNU doesn't mean nothing, because GNU is not |
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the platform (since GNU runs on slowaris, windows, hurd, linux, BSDs,...). |
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Don't get me wrong; I think that sometimes GNU/Linux is correct, but this |
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doesn't mean that you have to call it always this way. |
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> Besides... it's possible portage might be portable to other |
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> architectures, maybe including Hurd etc. later on. What then? Is it |
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> really that Linux-specific then? |
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I would like to try to make a Gentoo Hurd (genthurd ? :-) when |
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the next stable release (december ?). |
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The debian project makes also Debian Hurd; why Gentoo couldn't |
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also use a different kernel? Sure there are big differences, but on |
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a relatively little code base in the core packages and in startup scripts. |
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I think the portage system will be of great help for Hurd, because |
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it's easier to update software from sources than to expect to have binary |
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packages for a plaform which is not so popular yet, but most sources compile |
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out of the box. |
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Remember you all download big part of the "Unix/Posix" interface of Hurd |
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every time you build glibc :-) (glibc is full of Hurd "hacks", hurd is |
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the kernel |
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of GNU and glibc is also GNU...) |
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Does anyone here had experience with hurd? I installed an old |
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debian hurd, and I had hard time trying to recompile everything a most |
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recent version. |
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Could gentoo's portage could be used for Hurd ? |
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What parts of gentoo do you think must be changed in order |
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to run in a muti-server microkernel based system, with fancy thinks |
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like "translators" (instead of mount, ...). Only the bootstrap or there is |
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something more, and less obvious than this? |
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