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-rw-r--r-- | faq/support/0-software.mdwn | 11 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | faq/support/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | faq/support/64-bit.mdwn (renamed from faq/support/64bit.mdwn) | 13 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | faq/support/fuse_support.mdwn | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | faq/support/ram_limit.mdwn | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | faq/support/sata_disk_drives.mdwn | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | faq/support/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn | 11 |
7 files changed, 32 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/faq/support/0-software.mdwn b/faq/support/0-software.mdwn index 4726147c..324dbbef 100644 --- a/faq/support/0-software.mdwn +++ b/faq/support/0-software.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,14 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, +2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + [[!meta title="What software is available for GNU?"]] * Most (3/4) packages from [Debian](http://www.debian.org/) [GNU/Linux](http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html) which aren't linux-specific ([Packages That Won't Be Ported](http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-devel-debian)) are expected to work on GNU/Hurd too. See the database in <http://packages.debian.org/>. Notably, [GNOME](http://www.gnome.org), and [KDE](http://www.kde.org) work. See the [[porting/guidelines]] document for some common build problems and their solutions. diff --git a/faq/support/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn b/faq/support/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn index 8d921b07..3d502a17 100644 --- a/faq/support/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn +++ b/faq/support/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn @@ -1,12 +1,13 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2013 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="Is there still a 2 GiB Partition Limit?"]] diff --git a/faq/support/64bit.mdwn b/faq/support/64-bit.mdwn index 5b899b55..ab95d9d0 100644 --- a/faq/support/64bit.mdwn +++ b/faq/support/64-bit.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -9,9 +8,9 @@ Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] -[[!meta title="Is there a 64bit version?"]] +[[!meta title="Is there a 64-bit version?"]] -There are currently no plan for 64bit userland, but there are plans for 64bit -kernelland + 32bit userland, which will notably permit to efficiently make use -of more than 2GiB memory and provide 4GiB userland addressing space. Work on -this is currently in branches in GNU Mach. +There are currently no plan for 64-bit userland, but there are plans for 64-bit +kernelland with 32-bit userland, which will notably permit to efficiently make +use of more than 2 GiB memory and provide 4 GiB userland addressing space. +Work on this is currently in branches for GNU Mach. diff --git a/faq/support/fuse_support.mdwn b/faq/support/fuse_support.mdwn index 8867d954..33e877ce 100644 --- a/faq/support/fuse_support.mdwn +++ b/faq/support/fuse_support.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this diff --git a/faq/support/ram_limit.mdwn b/faq/support/ram_limit.mdwn index 4043203e..0fa27c2e 100644 --- a/faq/support/ram_limit.mdwn +++ b/faq/support/ram_limit.mdwn @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="830 MiB RAM Limit"]] -Just like any 32bit OS without bad tricks, GNU Mach can not cope well with lots +Just like any 32-bit OS without bad tricks, GNU Mach can not cope well with lots of memory. Latest versions of the Debian `gnumach` package will limit themselves to around 1.7 GiB of memory. If you want more, you can twiddle the `VM_MAX_ADDRESS` limit between kernelland and userland in `i386/include/mach/i386/vm_param.h`. diff --git a/faq/support/sata_disk_drives.mdwn b/faq/support/sata_disk_drives.mdwn index 2edaa610..69470f10 100644 --- a/faq/support/sata_disk_drives.mdwn +++ b/faq/support/sata_disk_drives.mdwn @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="Are SATA disk drives supported?"]] diff --git a/faq/support/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn b/faq/support/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn index 8702470a..2c31c22b 100644 --- a/faq/support/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn +++ b/faq/support/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -8,12 +8,13 @@ Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] -[[!meta title=" Could it be possible to have a system installation where you can -dual-boot using either the [[Linux]] kernel, or the GNU Hurd, so that -everything but the kernel is shared?]] +[[!meta title="Sharing the userspace between GNU Hurd and the Linux kernel"]] Given that both Linux and GNU Hurd are using the [[ELF]] binary -format, this could indeed be made possible, if all programs agreed to rely on +format, it is in theory possible to have a system installation where you can +dual-boot using either the [[Linux]] kernel, or the GNU Hurd, so that +everything but the kernel is shared. +For this, all programs need to agree to rely on only one abstraction layer, for example the standard C library ([[glibc]]). (Additionally, for example for [[system call]]s that are not covered by glibc calls, you'd need to be able to reliably trap and emulate these.) However, |