Re: It's really easy to use the Hurd to read mailing lists

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:
>>
>>>>> Yeah, Hurd is much stable.  But Guix GNU/Hurd isn't :(
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That's kind of sad.  I wonder what makes GNU/Hurd Guix System not so
>>>> stable.  Is debian GNU/Hurd with the guix package manager running on
>>>> top of it stable?
>>>
>>> I think, but not sure.  Looks like the startup routines of Guix GNU/Hurd
>>> is buggy.
>>
>> Could you please send a bug report to bug-guix@gnu.org?
>>
>> -- 
>> Ricardo
>
> Already did it a long ago, but got no response, see bug#50477.

Thank you.  This bug report doesn’t seem to be about Guix System being
“unstable” with the Hurd.  It is just about ping not working inside
qemu, which is a frequently encountered problem.  See also the Hurd
wiki:

  […] note that ping doesn't work with QEMU's user-networking stack.

https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/qemu.html

-- 
Ricardo