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Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?
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Arne Babenhauserheide |
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Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks? |
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Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:17:34 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 04 August 2010 19:25:26 olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net wrote:
> > *
Hurd related:
> > - Boot on laptop ;)
> > - Non-jerky X
> > -
Switching between console and X
> > - A full-featured high-resolution
console (doesn't good X suffice?)
> > - WLAN
> > - Ported Firefox
>
> - Flash
> >
> > * Others (have to be fixed, though):
> > - NFS:
climm, w3m, git
> >
> > Also USB, since it's often needed?
> >
> > Is that
about right?
>
> Well, roughly. But it's really hard to simplify it like
this. The
> original list has a lot of if's for a reason -- it really
depends a lot
> on the setup I choose, and thus what workarounds I can
apply...
What about console on X? Would that suffice for your needs?
> If
by "pure" Hurd environment you mean having no Linux boxes at all (not
> even
the router) running in parallel, there are a few more showstoppers.
That
would be my ultimate wish: no dependency on other systems.
> > Which of
these would persist with Linux on the Laptop as backup?
> Most of them.
Dual-booting is really too much pain for all but very
> sporadic use
cases.
I meant: Just using Linux on the laptop and Hurd on the desktop, so
you don’t have to stop your Hurd to use Linux (I have normal uptimes of a
few weeks, so I know how it hurts to restart the box :) ).
Would that
help? Or is it what you meant?
Best wishes,
Arne
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