Hi, Combining Jeff's idea and the question that Mark Brown recently posed (about getting access to a Hurd box to test something) I got the following idea. Is it possible that someone gives public (restricted?, anonymous?) access to his/her Hurd box for Newb's like me who are interested in the Hurd but don't have the time/spare machine yet to set it up themselves. I would certainly like to look around on a Hurd box / do some userland experiments on it. I myself am already interested enough that I will install it sooner or later anyway, but it might draw other newbees over that line...
Or does this provide possible hackers with too good a platform that they can execute their evil schemes from? Steven. On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 13:21:22 Jeff Davies wrote: > Hurd installation is not currently something for the atechnical. > Perhaps to show people that hurd actually works, a demolinux style CD > could be made. > The demolinux cd - (see www.demolinux.org) ignores the hard disk, and > just > runs off CD. A demo CD might contain just hurd, some tools and utils like > vi > et al, (perhaps gcc as well would be useful - then people could compile > using > it too), and XFree86 and Mozilla. (and an easy ppp interface like kppp or > > gnome-ppp). > > This is (1) a million times easier than making a easier to install kit > like > Mandrake GNU/Linux and (2) Removes the problem of changing from LILO to > GRUB > for many Linux users, and removes even greater impendiments to Win32 > users. > > It would be a bit like that QNX demo disk (except it would be a boot CD > not > floppy). > > Jeff Davies. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- ir. steven mooij kavezet automatisering korvezeestraat 37 2628db delft t +31 (0)6 44960226 f +31 (0)15 2562559 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] i http://www.kavezet.com/
