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Hurd: H2 CD Images
An anonymous submitter sends in: "The Debian GNU/Hurd team released a new Hurd CD Image. Snapshot images are produced at a four to eight week interval and the H2 images are the tenth of the series. The Hurd has grown from one CD image in August 2000 (A1) to four images in December 2001 (H2). These images are snapshots of a developing operating system, so suitable precautions must be taken when making an installation. Similar to other architectures, most important programs reside on CD 1, while the other ones contain less important packages. For the moment, Hurd doesn't support card sound and partition size is still limited to 1 GB. Hurd use the Debian packaging system (dpkg and apt as for Debian linux) , so it is simple to install and update packages."
= goat
Why bother using this rubbish? 10 years ago, this was a good idea. Now that RMS has flipped his lid, who cares?
:-)
I don't give a Flying Pig (tm) about Free vs. free vs. Not-so-free vs. You-gotta-pay-for-it. The only thing that matters to me is whether it WORKS.
On the list of OS's that are usable and make the Hurd just another blip on the screen:
OS/2
Mac OS X
Solaris
HP-UX
AIX
Linux (all flavors)
IRIX
Mac OS 9
AmigaOS
BeOS
why bother with another one that can't even keep up with OS/2?
By $ anonymous coward $ $ version 0.5 $
/dev/zero /dev/mem
/dev/zero overwrites the
Slashdot and the fucking bastards who run it are always "taco snottting"
each other and are saying "linux is uncrashable" Well I have found a way to
crash it in just 2 commands!
$ SU root
Enter Password : ************
$ CP
This will crash all your programs and cause kernel panic! It works by OVERWRITING
your memory with ZEROS and the kernel panics when the
kernel.
It shows that root is VERY DANGEROUS and you should NEVER log in as root! It is filled with SECURITY HOLES
ok.. so HURD is getting viable.. sorta. I for one am glad.. it'll mean that all the GPL nutjobs will leave Linux alone and follow the "One True Path" set forth by RMS.. I can't wait till they STFU and leave. GNU and RMS really need to have a lesser say, as soon as something is GPL'ed they figure they somehow "own" it and start preaching of the "True Path". This'll give 'em their own pond to piss in. Did anyone else smile all day long when they found out RMS did NOT get elected to the GNOME board?
aww :)
:)
i was lookin for a -1 troll too.
maybe a malaysian troll
besides that was ALL offtopic...
it said HURD
that name just asks to be laughed at.
LOL. I am SLASHDOT. hear me crash.
An OS that sucks worse than Linux... now I have seen everything.
Ya only one problem with that...the hurd was started BEFORE linux...
what's that? free software leads to blazing fast development speeds? *snigger*
Technically it isn't, even though it is. :-) If something is so free, that in it's second or third generation of modifications it can become unfree, how can it be "freer" than something that will *always* be free. How much Linux code do you think is built into Windows or other proprietary OSes?
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"You would not get a high grade for such a design" -- Andy Tanenbaum on Linus' Linux design.