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diff --git a/hurd/status.mdwn b/hurd/status.mdwn index ce9e01dd..cca8fc15 100644 --- a/hurd/status.mdwn +++ b/hurd/status.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 -Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, +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 @@ -29,11 +29,14 @@ servers in one Hurd instance with gdb running on another Hurd instance. You can run the X window system, applications that use it such as gnumeric, iceweasel, and advanced server applications like the Apache webserver. -On the negative side, the support for character devices (like sound -cards) and other hardware (USB, multicore) is mostly missing. Although the [[POSIX +The DDE environment allows for reusing half of the Linux 2.6.32 network device +drivers, and experimental support for SATA devices was added in May 2013. +On the other side, support for character devices (like sound +cards) and other hardware (USB, multicore) is mostly missing. + +Although the [[POSIX interface|faq/posix_compatibility]] is provided, some additional interfaces -like POSIX shared -memory or semaphores are still under development. +like POSIX shared memory or semaphores are still under development. All this applies to the current development version, and not to the last release (0.2). We encourage everybody who is interested to try @@ -52,15 +55,16 @@ align="right" [[Debian GNU/Hurd|running/debian]] closely tracks the progress of the Hurd (and often includes new features). They offer *LiveCDs and QEMU images* to test-drive the Hurd, and about 78% of the Debian software archive are -available. The most recent version of the Debian GNU/Hurd port at the time of -writing was published on 2013 January 5th. Debian Wheezy will unfortunately not officially release officially the Hurd port, an unofficial release will however be available. +available. Along with the official Debian "wheezy" release (but not as an +official Debian release), in May 2013 the Debian GNU/Hurd team released [[Debian +GNU/Hurd 2013|news/2013-05-debian_gnu_hurd_2013]]. [[hurd/running/Arch_Hurd]] offers *LiveCDs* for testing and installation. [[hurd/running/Nix]] provides QEMU images. That said, the last official release of the Hurd -without the Debian parts was 0.2 done in 1997. +without the Debian parts was 0.2 done in 1997 ([[history]]). New official releases will be done, as soon as the Hurd is sufficently stable and feature @@ -73,6 +77,29 @@ possibility that they would want to try the Hurd again in the future. ## Usability Reports +### Svante Signell, 2013-05-21 + +I have been running GNU/Hurd for some years now, with VMs, mainly in the +QEMU/KVM environment on host computers supporting hardware acceleration. +On these boxes Hurd runs decently fast with the correct KVM settings. +On my latest box, a 4-core, 8-thread, 3.4GHz CPU, 16GiB RAM, 128GiB SSD host it +is very fast. One can not complain on execution speeds at least in a hosted +environment. Additionally, the KVM images are very stable, you only get +into problems if you push to the limits, like memory, swap space etc. +In fact one build daemon for Debian GNU/Hurd is running under KVM and it is +one of the fastest. + +I don't use GNU/Hurd for my day-to-day business (yet), that is mainly due to +some of the above mentioned missing features. I do use it for porting packages, +mainly for the Debian GNU/Hurd distribution, partly contributing to the kernel +development (gnumach/Hurd/gcc/gdb/libc) and running package test suites for +checks of performance and POSIX compatibility. + +When some of the missing features are implemented (and remaining bugs squeezed +out) I will seriously consider using the Hurd on real hardware, as my primary +system. For now it stays in the VM environment, mainly for porting and development +purposes. Why don't you try it out too? + ### Olaf Buddenhagen, 2009-06-09 > I have been using the Hurd for most of my everyday work for some two |