Re: Current state of Xorg on Hurd?

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:31:24PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Am Dienstag 02 September 2008 11:43:39 schrieb Neal H. Walfield:
> > At Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:15:41 +0200,
> > Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> > > * For Desktops: Are pthreads fully implemented, now? Can I get KDE or
> > > similar running? :)
> >
> I ask, because I read on the net, that KDE and similar won't run, because 
> pthreads aren't fully implemented. That is: Weren't fully implemented in 2000 
> or so. 
> 
> And with my searches on the web I didn't find information if that had changed 
> (means: if I could run KDE now :) ). 

man cvs.

> -> I ask, because the debian guide says, it won't work, but its way to start 
> xorg doesn't work, so I'm not sure how current it is. 
> - http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install
> 
> How up to date is the Hurd user guide? 
> - http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/users-guide/using_gnuhurd.html
> 
> Besides: The error I get when I try to start X.org is
> "Cannot open keyboard (not a directory)"

All those questions are more on-topic on help-hurd, really.


cheers,

Michael