Re: How to run Guix with Hurd

[fr33d0m <fr33d0m@agnuwayofthinking.com>]

Thanks, yes I did see the post about it.

I kind of thought it might not be real :-) got me!

Thanks for the info.

On 7/11/20 4:05 PM, Jan Wielkiewicz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Dnia 2020-07-11, o godz. 14:14:16
> fr33d0m <fr33d0m@agnuwayofthinking.com> napisał(a):
>
>> I'm running a standalone GUIX system and have been updating it with
>> GUIX pull and upgrading packages.
>>
>> I'd like to try running the Hurd instead of Libre-Linux but I don't
>> know how to do this.
> I guess you read the first April joke post about Linux-libre being
> replaced with the Hurd. The Hurd isn't ready to replace Linux-libre
> yet, but you can learn and contribute or tell the others to make it
> true.
>
> Here, the Hurd's website. It is outdated a bit:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/
> And the more updated one (it is down in the time of writing this post):
> darnassus.sceen.net/cgit/hurd-web.git/log/index.mdwn
> The most up to date discussions:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/
>
> Hurd lacks SMP (Simultaneous MultiProcessing), is 32-bit only and it
> doesn't support modern hardware yet.
>
> You can try Guix GNU/Hurd on a virtual machine (qemu).
> If you're interested in it, I can give you instructions to set up a VM
> with the Hurd.
>
>
> Jan Wielkiewicz