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I am writing this comment from a modern graphical webbrowser running on an OS with the GNU kernel. Who thought this day would ever come?

• stefantalpalaru 11y ago
  Bare metal or VM?
  • fs111 11y ago
    VirtualBox. I don't have a spare machine lying around, but still cool...
    • Goladus 11y ago
      Relevant question I would say is that even if you did have a spare machine lying around, how well would Hurd support its hardware?
      • christianbryant 11y ago
        It will be interesting to see if the Debian influence will promote the availability of a wide variety of architectures, including the options to load non-free firmware. From the GNU/FSF standpoint, this is at its core a GNU project, and GNU promotes freedom, free software and the rejection of non-free code. If a wide array of hardware support emerges, it will not come from the GNU portion of the project, where only either "freed" hardware (via coreboot, etc) or hardware with open specs is the target. Please note that "hardware" does not mean "system" - likely you can install on any number of systems that include lots of "closed" and unsupported hardware, but where you go from there is up to you... http://www.nongnu.org/thug/gnumach_hardware.html http://www.nongnu.org/thug/gnumach_hardware.html
        • mattl 11y ago
          I don't know how well known it is, but Debian was started when Ian Murdock was an FSF employee.
          • christianbryant 11y ago
            Hey, Matt :-) Viva la Libre.fm! I love Ian and I think of the folks that have drifted from _strict_ FSF/GNU practices, I think he's the most conscientious engineer who still keeps those values in mind. I have my GNU-only systems, but due to my career in commercial and government software, I've just become comfortable with mixing free and non-free software. Nothing has pleased me more than seeing this update to GNU Hurd.
            • mattl 11y ago
              I'm looking forward to updating my screencasts of GNU. I may also put it on a ThinkPad.
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• nfoz 11y ago
  Is it the year of Debian GNU/Hurd on the desktop?
• smhenderson 11y ago
  I have it installed on a VM but can't seem to get Cinnamon running properly. Haven't messed with it too much but I was wondering what Desktop/Window Manager you installed to get to the point where you could use a "modern graphical web browser"? I'm not picky and I just kind of randomly picked cinnamon during the install. Then Tasksel failed so when I restarted that part of the install I left the Desktop stuff out and everything worked fine. Once booted up I used aptitude to grab it, updated xinitrc to launch cinnamon-session but when I ran startx (after fiddling with enabling the hurd console that is) I was greeted with "Cinnamon Session Failed". Anyway, I don't have a ton of time to mess with it but I'd like to try some options and see what I can get working. Any insight you have is appreciated! Edit: When I said VM above, I mean VirtualBox if that matters...
  • fs111 11y ago
    I used fluxbox as the window manager. I simply installed iceweasel, xinit, xterm and fluxbox, ran startx and had working environment.