Re: pure gnustep system

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Stefan Bidi wrote:
> The only one I know of that is still being developed is 
> (livecd.gnustep.org <http://livecd.gnustep.org>).
I would add the VM disttribution "one step to gnutep" by Richard 
Stonehouse. While not a proper "distro" it contains all what is needed 
and is ready to be started up inside a VM. The goal there is to provide 
an immediately usable system for developers and a reference for those 
who fail to get a working gnustep.

The RPM packages used to make it are available too. The only minimal 
complaint is that they are set up in FHS and not gnustep layout, which 
removes a bit the best experience in the workspace. The rest is very 
accurately done.

If you like a good experience by suing ready made packages, I'd suggest 
either a RPM bad distro where you can use Richard's, or gentoo or 
OpenBSD. Definitely not Debian ones: they work, but they are split up in 
such a way that they remove much of the OpenStep concept.

If you are ready to compile from source, then instead Debian & Gentoo I 
can definitely recommend for linux. Good and stable experience. For BSD 
I use FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. They all work very smooth and I test 
everything on them by routine.

My personal recommendation would be do configure with layout=GNUstep and 
prefix=/  thus you get a layout very close to the Mac and NeXT.

Solaris works reasonably too and if you are really adventurous, I do 
test and try to make things work on GNU/HURD from time to time. There 
are screenshots on my blog to testify that things do work there 
sometimes quite well (http://multixden.blogspot.com)

Riccardo