Sorry in advance for the troll,
I am trying to get to grips with the hurd. It seems to me like it has gone backwards since I last dipped my toe in a couple of years ago. Have I just got the wrong set up?
I installed using crosshurd, so it should be up-to-date, but it seems highly broken. vi dumps a core telnet dumps a core I can't get the nfs translator to work there is no ftp client sshd dumps a core inetd dumps a core
I get a linking error trying to build gnu mach strpcpy.
It took me a day of instant reboots to realise that it didn't like the fact that I had too much memory (I went from 1GBbyte to 512Mbytes)
I would really love to do some work on the hurd, but the only way I can copy files is by booting into sid. And that is just not realistic. Life is too short.
So please, should I use an older version? How can I believe that the hurd is a good thing if it is impossible to use?
Regards, --
Steve King