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

[Gabriel]

Ok, thanks to all for your replies. 
Debian team has released the 2013 Debian/Hurd OS and I downloaded it. During 
this week-end i will install a program to virtualize OSs on my Mac, because I 
don't want to test the Hurd on my IBM t43p (1GB RAM 80GB hdd 1.87 GHz). And if 
it works well, I will try to install GNUstep on it, and when I have errors, I 
post them here, and if it can easily solved you tell me what to do otherwise 
I'll wait until someone find and give me a solution. (Because I have only 
programmed(?) in BASIC and written some Forth commands, I'm poor in C or 
anything like)
But… I want to learn so I'm motivated(?). 

PS:

I'm thinking of buying a new laptop with a quick processor and a IDE hdd or IDE 
ssd(if it exists!) and 1866MHz 4GB RAM, but I haven't any idea which one to 
choose nor where. 
I'm open to suggestions.

> Hi,
> 
> 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 :)