On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 17:15 +0530, arnuld wrote: > i have 2 simple questions, i see there are 2 distributions of Hurd: > > 1.) GNU (which is what we call the "complete GNU Operating System") > 2.) Debian GNU/Hurd
Well strictly speaking these are not Hurd distributions they are GNU/Hurd distributions, just as gNewSense is not a Linux distribution it is a GNU/Linux distribution. The Hurd (+ GNUMach) is a kernel replacement, not a full operating system. > Debian Hurd has ISOs available in the form of K14 and it has apt-get > as package management system which is quite good IMHO. apt is not a package management system, similarly neither is yum. Rather, these are programs that download packages from a repository and pass them on to the package manager (dpkg, rpm etc..) to be installed. It is hoped that one day there will be a program like apt or yum for the GNU system. > 1st question, GNU Hurd has no ISOs. this page links to 2 GNU > snapshots: http://hurd.in/bin/view/Hurd/SetupGNU but they are quite > old and seem unusable to the person who want to become a Hurd > developer. why there are no ISOs of GNU ? There are ISO images of the most recent snapshots of GNU available at [1]. There are official releases available on GNU FTP mirrors I believe but these are extremely old. > 2nd, i do not see any discussion for a package management system for > GNU Hurd, is there any ? This has been discussed in the past on this list I believe, have a look through the archives. I encourage you to get involved! ;-) [1] http://www.update.uu.se/~ams/GNU/ Kind regards, Daniel. _______________________________________________ gnu-system-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss
