Re: about GNU Hurd

[Michael Banck]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 08:21:24PM +0530, arnuld wrote:
> i have 2 simple questions, i see there are 2 distributions of Hurd:
> 
> 1.) GNU Hurd (which is what we call the "complete GNU Operating System")
> 2.) Debian Hurd

The distributions are called `GNU' and `Debian GNU/Hurd', respectively.

> Debian Hurd has ISOs available in the form of K14 and it has apt-get
> as package management system which is quite good IMHO.
 
> 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. 

What is the question?

> 2nd, i do not see any discussion for a package management system for
> GNU Hurd, is there any ?

It is discussed at gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org; see the mailing list
archives for that list.  Discussion and development has been rather slow
over the last year or so, however, I believe.


cheers,

Michael