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GNU is Not Unix

Journal: Hurd retardedness

Journal by putaro

OK, who was the retard who decided to map entire PARTITIONS into memory and that therefore PARTITIONS (not files, file systems!) could only be a max of 2GB under HURD? Oy vey. Yah, you betcha GNU's not Unix. Maybe some SCO code would help.

GNU is Not Unix

Journal: Hurding gnu's

Journal by putaro

So I thought I'd try installing GNU Hurd and messing with it. "Try the Debian CD image" beckons the GNU Hurd page. My, that's nice I thought. Who needs to read the instructions page - that's what the installer is for, right? Why bother making an installer if it's not going to at least install the boot loader? And then I'm supposed to type this at the GRUB prompt:

grub> module (hd0,0)/hurd/ext2fs.static \ --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} \ --host-priv-port=${host-port} \ --device-master-port=${device-port} \ --exec-server-task=${exec-task} -T typed ${root} \ $(task-create) $(task-resume)

Ya know, I don't mind doing the extra work since it's a development system - but why go to the effort of making a CD image and an installer and not do the last two fricking steps? A kernel comment comes to mind: This was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

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