Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

1998-08-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: : On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 10:51:56PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: : > On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: : > : > : > > Imagine "Debian GNU/FreeBSD" ... that would send some people straight : > > over the edge. : > : > Uhhmmm why not

Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

1998-08-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 10:51:56PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > > Imagine "Debian GNU/FreeBSD" ... that would send some people straight > > over the edge. > > Uhhmmm why not. So that we can all multiple boot to these OS's ( Linux > /HURD/Fr

Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

1998-08-25 Thread Thomas Malloy
Thanks for all your replies. The reasons for including hurd are well founded and logical. I think, in large part because many people have a philosphical component in their choice to use linux, explaining the reasons behind decisions is far more important than in a traditional corporate str

Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

1998-08-25 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Imagine "Debian GNU/FreeBSD" ... that would send some people straight > over the edge. Uhhmmm why not. So that we can all multiple boot to these OS's ( Linux /HURD/FreeBSD/Win32/fooOS) without learning any other packaging systems. I love OS's!

Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

1998-08-25 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Nathan wrote, > Imagine "Debian GNU/FreeBSD" ... that would send some people straight > over the edge. Actually, what I want is a Debian BSD/linux, using the BSD stuff rather than GNU. Maybe someday when i have a few hundred spare hours :) rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU un

Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

1998-08-25 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The Hurd is a kernel not an OS. My take on this is that Debian is a > collection of apps and their philosophy of package managment and the > DFSG. The real name of Debian is 'Debian GNU/Linux', with the Hurd > kernel it will just be 'Debian GNU/Hurd

Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

1998-08-25 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Thomas Malloy wrote: > [...] > I thought DEBIAN was a distribution of linux, which runs on various > hardware platforms. As you will know, Linux is two things at the same time. On one side, it is the name people usually call "the complete OS", on the other side, it is just a

Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

1998-08-25 Thread Peter Makholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Malloy) writes: > It is quite worth while on its own merits, but what does it have to do > with linux or debian? Debian, the multi kernel/multi arch distribution. I like the sound of that. I don't need hurd right now. but when I'm going to make some programs my self

Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

1998-08-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : *- Thomas Malloy wrote about "Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?) " : |ALPHA SPARC i386HURD : |Which one of these things is not like the other? : | : | Since hurd is an operating system and not an architectur

Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

1998-08-24 Thread servis
*- Thomas Malloy wrote about "Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?) " | ALPHA SPARC i386HURD | Which one of these things is not like the other? | | Since hurd is an operating system and not an architecture why does debian release packages for it. | I thought DE

Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

1998-08-24 Thread Thomas Malloy
ALPHA SPARC i386HURD Which one of these things is not like the other? Since hurd is an operating system and not an architecture why does debian release packages for it. I thought DEBIAN was a distribution of linux, which runs on various hardware platforms. I hav