[Nottingham] Does HURD do anything yet?
Simon Huggins
nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Fri Feb 21 13:52:02 2003
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:26:02AM +0000, Alex Tibbles wrote:
> > (Or is this a very silly question because the Mach/Hurd kernel
> > supports far fewer interfaces/services than the Linux kernel?)
> It's meant to work with the GNU system so it does support gcc et al.
Has anyone here tried hurd yet? Does it actually /do/ anything yet?
Reading the install guide it can run X at least so maybe it can.
Things like:
Sit back and watch the messages. This is actually more important
than most people believe: there is a bug in GNU Mach whereby
hitting a key during the boot process causes the kernel to
panic.
Don't really inspire confidence.
Simon.
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