Re: GNUstep on the rise!

[Gürkan Sengün]

> A few days ago I read an article mentioning, among other things, GNUstep and
> how 'cool' (my choice of words) it would be if/when/whether 'these guys'
> (ie. the developers of GNUstep) would decide to put GNUstep on top of their
> OWN operating system instead of 'screwing around with existing systems
> resulting in symlinks all over the place' (again, my choice of words) and
> 'imagine GNUstep on a Mach based kernel.'

I hate those symlinks too. and GNUstep being in /usr/lib/GNUstep on 
Debian is too far away from either / or /usr/GNUstep . My suggestion
to put it to either of the latter two wasn't welcome.

> My first thought was along a distribution based on (Open)Darwin. However,
> with respect to the recent news about Darwin/OSX x86 and DRM, I guess this
> would be a 'no go.'
>
> AFAIK, xMach is dead :-( So does anyone know how far Hurd is with respect to
> usability?

GNU/Hurd got quite much more stable during the last half year. I haven't 
tried it recently. But there's also efforts for L4.
I think that's an older screenshot of ratmice (Matt Rice):
http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/turdstep.png

And some other person in #gnustep was talking about his own OS without X
and GNUstep, I don't remember his nick though...

Cheers,
Guerkan