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| -rw-r--r-- | community/weblogs/ArneBab/niches_for_the_hurd.mdwn | 18 |
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diff --git a/community/meetings.mdwn b/community/meetings.mdwn index 84a2c1a2..c7ed664d 100644 --- a/community/meetings.mdwn +++ b/community/meetings.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable @@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ is included in the section entitled # Upcoming - * [[FOSDEM 2010]] * [[Self-organised]] # Past + * [[FOSDEM 2010]] * [[EuroSys_2009]] * [[FOSDEM_2008]] * [[Weekend_at_stesie's|stesie_2007-10-12]] diff --git a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/What_a_Hurd_release_should_be_able_to_do_for_me.mdwn b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/What_a_Hurd_release_should_be_able_to_do_for_me.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..51ef2a85 --- /dev/null +++ b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/What_a_Hurd_release_should_be_able_to_do_for_me.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +I thought a bit about what I’d need from Hurd to use it for some of my real life tasks. + +My desktop has to be able to do everything it does now, and that under high load, so it currently is no useful target for the Hurd. + +But then I have an OLPC XO sitting here, and I use it mostly for work and for clearly defined tasks. As such it seems natural to me to check, what the Hurd would have to be able to do to support my workflow on the OLPC. + +### What I need + +* Writing text and programming Python with emacs. - *works*. +* Use Mercurial for my versiontracked stuff. - *works*. +* Reading websites with emacs and w3m or with lynx. - *works*. +* Use SSH to go on my desktop and on the university machine. - *should work*. +* Run X11 with dwm and emacs. - *should work*. +* Boot Hurd on the OLPC from a USB stick. - *not yet*? +* Support networking over wlan and wpa_supplicant. - *not yet*? Might DDE kit help? +* Listen to music with Quod Libet in X11. - *not yet*. Needs audio support. + +### What would be nice + +* Run a Gentoo system. - not *really* needed, but nice to update my system with the same tools. +* Watch videos with mplayer. - unlikely. Even with Linux as kernel watching videos pushes my XO to the limit. But this is not essential. + + +So, as soon as Debian GNU/Hurd (or Arch Hurd) supports the things I need, I’ll put it on a USB-stick and use it for coding and writing. + +To be frank: I’d likely even use it without audio-support. I have an mp3 player and can feed it via USB. So the essential features for me are: + +### Essential features + +* Writing text and programming Python with emacs. - works. +* Use Mercurial for my versiontracked stuff. - works. +* Use SSH to go on my desktop and on the university machine. - should work. +* Boot Hurd on the OLPC from a USB stick. - not yet? +* Support networking over wlan and wpa_supplicant. - not yet? Might DDE kit help? + +### Conclusion + +The Hurd doesn’t yet do everything I need for my OLPC, but it isn’t that far away either. Grub already gets [ported to OLPC](http://grub.enbug.org/OLPC), so what’s missing to make the Hurd a work system for me are just *booting on OLPC from USB stick* and *wlan-support on OLPC*. + +All the rest I need for work is already in place. diff --git a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/niches_for_the_hurd.mdwn b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/niches_for_the_hurd.mdwn index ff169b0a..6f0af07e 100644 --- a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/niches_for_the_hurd.mdwn +++ b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/niches_for_the_hurd.mdwn @@ -94,16 +94,16 @@ sounds like an interesting option.*" *"While I believe this can be applied to any kind of applications, I'm personally most interested in more efficient and powerful desktop environments -- these considerations are in fact what got me seriously -interested in the Hurd. +interested in the Hurd.* -Even more specifically, I've done most considerations (though by far not +*Even more specifically, I've done most considerations (though by far not all) on modular web browsing environments. Those interested can read up -some of my thoughts on this: +some of my thoughts on this:* http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20080909073154.GB821%40alien.local -(Just skip the text mode browsing stuff -- the relevant part is the long +*(Just skip the text mode browsing stuff -- the relevant part is the long monologue at the end... I really should put these ideas into my blog.)"* @@ -127,7 +127,15 @@ or even: * cp ftp://foo/bar/ogg play -that's KDEs fabled network transparency on the filesystem / shell level. +that's KDEs fabled network transparency on the filesystem / shell level (where it belongs to be desktop agnostic). + +* add temporary filesystems anywhere via `settrans -a NODE /hurd/ext2fs` + +* make everything temporarily writeable without really changing it via [[hurd/translator/unionfs]]. + +* Read tar archives and mbox files via `ls foo.tar.gz,,tarfs` and `ls foo.mbox,,mboxfs`, respectively → [[hurd/translator/nsmux]]. + +* Use stuff like the new akonady (personal information) framework in KDE more efficiently from the shell. Reality check |