On 22/01/10 08:37, Enrique Matías Sánchez (Quique) wrote:
Hi,
I didn't find any mention of this project on the official Hurd lists
nor OSNews, so maybe you don't know about it (my apologies if you do
and I'm causing noise).
Allan McRae from Arch Linux announced that a new Hurd distro is in the making:
http://allanmcrae.com/2010/01/arch-hurd/
They have a website:
http://www.archhurd.org/
and a mailing list:
http://lists.archhurd.org/listinfo.cgi/devel-archhurd.org
It looks like they are only two developers so far :/
Hi,
No real announcement had been made so far as we are still a long way of
having anything that would be considered distro-like. The idea for this
first surfaced only about three weeks ago. At the moment, we have a set
of scripts that cross-compile a booting qemu image with some very core
software (coreutils, grep, sed, etc), and I had to learn a lot about the
state of the toolchain for Hurd to even get there.
Also, given the current man-power for this project, I doubt it will end
being something many people consider distro-like either. It will have a
package manager (pacman from Arch Linux), but the package selection will
initially be limited to what is an Arch Linux style "base" install.
Think of a package selection similar to what you have at the end of
building a Linux From Scratch system... At least, that is what my
intended "end" point is. If others join and want to take it beyond
that, they will be most welcome.
Allan
