On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:30:26PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: > I think such a machine would be valuable to increase the quality > of the Hurd port overall.
Maybe. But also keep in mind that porting to GNU/Hurd is a bit more complicated than porting to just another Linux architecture, because of some things GNU/Hurd does differently, see http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Distrib/PortingIssues > Most of my packages do never get built on hurd, although that might > actually be related to a lack of buildds? That probably the case, the buildd is not running at the moment :) I build important packages (like the toolchain) infrequently though. Anyway, you can still try to install the Hurd yourself on a free partition, for example using the crosshurd package. Most people have an i386, so it's just a matter of perhaps freeing some disk-space and reading the docs. If it doesn't work with your hardware or you run into big problems, you will not have lost a lot of time. See http://hurd.gnu.org and http://hurd.gnufans.org for further information. Michael
