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<p>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.</p>
<p>Great job though! Fun report to read.</p>
<p>JMH<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/7/24 5:08 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote:<br>
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<p>Howdy</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>For now it is essentially a time killer as I've reinstalled it
probably 20 times with always the same result.</p>
<p>Cheers</p>
<p>Brian <br>
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