Re: [Trisquel-users] Linus supports Secure Boot and doesn't think its a big deal

[gymnarchusniloticus]

At this point, there is not much to do. The only GUI I got running on it was  
fluxbox. The only distros hurd-based are Debian GNU/Hurd and Arch Hurd, arch  
hurd has even less packages ported to it. The main project in debian has only  
a handful of developers (Samuel Thibault being the main and perhaps five  
more, plus 20-30 contributors for porting packages). Devs are hoping for it  
to be ready for the release of debian wheezy.

Regarding why it doesn't have much developers, from my point of view: Most  
contributors to the Linux kernel are companies (Red Hat, Broadcom, IBM, even  
Microsoft, and many more). Companies are not interested in hurd for some  
reasons: They can do business with linux, hurd is not a necessity for them,  
and GPLv3. Independent developers prefer Linux because it is already  
mainstream. Hurd's history is also controversial. Devs had a hard time  
choosing the microkernel, they experimented L4, Coyotos and maybe others  
because GNU Mach had a bad implementation and former devs made a critique  
about it (know as The Critique). What you can do right now is go to  
people.debian.org/~sthibault and get the isos or preinstalled imgs and run it  
in qemu. It is very slow at the moment (last time it took me 3-4 hours to  
install) and only supports ext2fs.