[nmglug] Debian GNU/Hurd

[Jonathan Haack]

You are a much more patient person than I am. I would just use a distro 
with the Linux Libre kernel instead; so much work since HURD project has 
so many unfinished parts.

Great job though! Fun report to read.

JMH

On 4/7/24 5:08 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
>
> Howdy
>
> I have been installing Debian GNU/Hurd 11 into a QEMU VM. I like the 
> fact that it doesn't use the linux kernel so a further bit down the 
> road to FOSS. Anyway, I have downloaded the 20323 NET.iso from the 
> Debian GNU/Hurd repository and installed it. Once installed it's 
> beautiful and I installed gnumeric and GIMP for testing. On a first 
> reboot I can log in via Debian console and then I run startx to get an 
> XFCE4 desktop. It uses the lightdm. However, there is no way to 
> cleanly shut the VM down and I resort to quitting which means on next 
> boot up I get a fsck as it wasn't shutdown properly. Once that is done 
> and I get a console prompt I login and run startx. I get some wait 
> time and then the menu bar at the top, a dock at the bottom and a 
> black screen with a black X cursor. I've restarted lightdm to no 
> avail. I can provide more details if anyone is interested in this. It 
> sure looks like a very good effort at getting a GNU/Hurd, operable, OS 
> out there.
>
> Here's what I've been using for info. BTW, the QEMU img that the 
> website says you can run is true. You can run it, but it is some very 
> weird version of a very antique GNU/Hurd distro. I would love to get 
> this working beyond this X window issue.
>
> For now it is essentially a time killer as I've reinstalled it 
> probably 20 times with always the same result.
>
> Cheers
>
> Brian
>
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