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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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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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