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Re: General question about the Hurd
From: |
Wolfgang Jährling |
Subject: |
Re: General question about the Hurd |
Date: |
Thu, 30 May 2002 16:54:29 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.0.1i |
Monty R Manley <mrmanley@charter.net> wrote:
> How "ready" is the HURD?
Depends on your expectations.
> 1. Can it handle filesystem sizes over 1GB?
It can handle 1.6 GB fine here, but if you want to be on the save side,
use 1 GB file systems.
> 2. Has the crash bug on bootup been fixed yet (where you press a key and
> the kernel panics)?
No, but I don't think this has any effect on usabillity.
> 3. Console issues (hardware cursor scrolling broken)?
Uh, don't remember we even had this program.
> Finally, is the GnuMach 1.3 release based on the old Mach microkernel, or
> the new Utah OsKit kernel (fluke)?
GNU Mach 1.3 does not use OSKit. GNU Mach 2.0 (a.k.a. OSKit-Mach) will
use OSKit.
Cheers,
GNU/Wolfgang
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