Xavier Maillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --=-=-= > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:36:33AM +0200, Xavier Maillard wrote: > > > Hi, > > >=20=20 > > > I currently use GNU/Hurd at home but only to test few of my > > > developments on this platform. > > >=20=20 > > > Till now, I didn't think to switch to GNU/hurd definetely. I have > > > reached a point where I would like to use only GNU/Hurd at home. Do > > > you honestly think this is a crazy idea or does anybody has > > > definetely choose to use GNU/Hurd for daily tasks (mail, > > > programming, web, multimedia, ...). > > >=20=20 > > > I really need feedback on that ;) > >=20=20 > > It depends on what you need. If you need GNOME/KDE or stability or > > good performance then GNU is not ready for you yet. As for web and > > multimedia we don't have any sound support and we still don't have a > > ported major browser (Mozilla, Galeon, etc) > > The main purpose would be to have my current real simple setup > (X+Ion+zsh+Emacs+gcc) into the GNU. > > And maybe I could begin to help in making > development/packaging/whatever. > > All I need is at leat a shell, emacs (and stuff that comes with it: > bbdb, gnus, ...) and also a simple w3m (my main browser here). > > Is it possible then ??
There was someone this list who tried to do thisq, but I think he ended up giving up. That said, if you really want to try to run Hurd as you main OS and you really only need a shell and emacs then I'd bet you would be able to get by fairly well. Not sure how well w3m works (never tied that). I haven't heard any disk corruption stories in a long time, but if you do any significant amount of work you should be extra careful to back it up somewhere. Derek
