Re: Ubuntu and Debian packages / 2013-09-27

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Germán Arias wrote:
> El jue, 03-10-2013 a las 11:56 -0700, Gabriel Sulliger escribió:
> > Nice what you did. I love the goals of the Hurd, and with the latest Debian 
> > Hurd 2013 release, I think that the Hurd is going better each day. So you 
> > updated packages for i386 and AMD64 processors architectures and what about 
> > trying to port GNUSTEP as the first Hurd GUI? Because I heard that Gnome and 
> > KDE don't works. If GNUSTEP can live upon the Hurd servers, it would be a big 
> > step done for the Hurd project and a GNEWSTEP (;-P) in the GNUSTEP adventure.
> > As I saw at the bottom of your mails, you have french sentences. Est-ce que le 
> > français est votre langue maternelle? (Is french your mother tongue?)
> > In case it is, I can explain my idea more clearly to your because I'm still at 
> > school and I have only forty-five minutes of English each week (not enough!).
> >
> > If you think it's a very bad idea, just ignore it.
> In 2009 Riccardo post this:
>
> http://multixden.blogspot.com/2009/02/browser-on-hurd.html
>
> So I think is possible have GNUstep in HURD.
it is/was posisble. After this article, GNUstep got unreliable gain. I 
regularly tested on HURD; but there were certain bugs causing crashes 
(hurd related) as other build problems. When finally most were solved, 
the HDD of my hurd machine started to have problems
I hope to fix it soon, but there are so many other things I want to sort 
out before and which I am unable to, tha tit got a bit low priority. 
Also, installing today arequires a lot of RAM which I don't have, 
apparenlty.

Compared to other libraries and kits, GNUstep works quite well on HURD! 
few patches were needed, if at all. Once GNUstep runs, most applications 
compiled out-of-the box except some bad programmiung pratices, which, if 
the app was on my control, I fixed.

So yes, GNU emacs, GNU compiler, GNUstep, GNU/Hurd over GNU Mach is 
potentially feasible :)

Riccardo

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