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Heh, not a particulary in-depth article in any way, to be honest. "the GNU/Hurd is Unix(POSIX)-compatible, so most things work"... well that's to be said for M
by gattilorenz 3y ago
Heh, not a particulary in-depth article in any way, to be honest.
"the GNU/Hurd is Unix(POSIX)-compatible, so most things work"... well that's to be said for MacOS, QNX, etc. In practice, where is the "65% of the Debian archive can be built for the Hurd" figure coming from? I'm sure it can be built in theory, how much does it require source modifications?
- rekado 3y agoHere's a list of failing packages with reasons for failure: https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/failed_packages.txt https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/failed_packages.txt And here's the overview on how many packages have successfully been built vs how many have failed: https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=hurd-i386&suite=sid https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=hurd-i38... The number of packages that can be built have been built; it is not a theoretical number.
- gattilorenz 3y agothanks for the pointer, it's actually quite interesting. Apparently even (most of) X11 should work then?
- rekado 3y agoYes, X11 has been working for a long time. Here's a screenshot from 2013: https://lwn.net/Articles/555566/ https://lwn.net/Articles/555566/