Hi, On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:17:34AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> What about console on X? Would that suffice for your needs? Oh, sorry, forgot to answer that question. No, it wouldn't suffice. If I was content with X, why would I ever want to port KGI?... Admittedly, X would probably be a pretty workable environment from a purely pragmatical point of view nowadays -- gnome-terminal makes a pretty good console replacement, after frobbing about half a dozen settings; and modern window managers like awesome are probably quite OK too. When I tried a couple of years ago with xterm and ion, it was too awkward... However, I still refuse to run a graphics-centric environment, just to do my text-centric work on top of it. It makes no sense. I want a text-centric environment, with graphics capabilities as on optional addition; not the other way around. > I meant: Just using Linux on the laptop and Hurd on the desktop, so > you don???t have to stop your Hurd to use Linux (I have normal uptimes > of a few weeks, so I know how it hurts to restart the box :) ). That would be pretty much the same fallback setup I'm running right now; only with a Linux notebook instead of a linux desktop box... -antrik-