Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 Release

[jbranso]

Thanks for being civil. There's been quite a few people sh*t posting here. Thanks for not doing that here.

Also have ya'll heard about...

[jbranso]

Why would people refuse to use an initrd? Why do you suppose someone would prefer the alternative?...

[jbranso]

This actually was tried! Well L4 was tried: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hi...crokernel.html

The Hurd Developers...

[jbranso]

I'm just glad for the competition! It's nice to know that we have other alternatives....

[jbranso]

That is a weird name for a debugger. ...

[jbranso]

Sorry for getting so long to respond to you...

GNU Guix actually does build everything from source! Or it does very nearly... It's pretty...

[jbranso]

How is the FreeBSD experience? I do think the *BSDs are interesting...but I have never really used them....

[jbranso]

Plus Meson has better cross-platform support....

Is this actually true? Doesn't autotools support all sorts of crazy small OSes?
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[jbranso]

What name? and Zig has a debugger?...

[jbranso]

Thanks for your thoughts! I guess it's is fairly true that Rust currently brings more to the table. Just to share my thoughts, I'm a GNU Guix fan boy,...

[jbranso]

I'm starting to wonder if Zig is a better C alternative? Sorry to start the resulting flame-war....

[jbranso]

I didn't know FreeBSD uses git now!? Very cool!

I've heard that DragonflyBSD is another really good performance minded BSD. I actually...

[jbranso]

I think a lot of it has to do with the choice of the *BSDs to use CVS instead of git. If they used git, they could all contribute to the same kernel....

[jbranso]

Do you run it on real hard ware? Or in qemu? I'm guessing qemu. I've seen some adventurous people running it on real hardware. I'd like to be one...

[jbranso]

Hey Michael!

Debian GNU/Hurd just had an interesting release!


* The port of go is complete
* Support for file record...