GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (somewhat) practical way

Re:GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (... by taeric on Monday August 07, 2023 @01:29PM (#37037662)

My memory was spending as much time learning on the different options as anything else. Though, I think most of my memory was all of the config for FreeBSD. Compiling Firefox was the beast that I remember. Only thing I still compile is Emacs, and that is silly fast on modern computers.

Really, the speed of compilation is such that I understand why so many source distribution methods are as popular as they are now. Feels funny to have come to that point so effectively.

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Re:GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (... by anonymousiam on Monday August 07, 2023 @10:03PM (#37043558)

The big break (for me) in configuring the options was the very welcome addition of "make menuconfig" to replace the original "make config". As the number of supported filesystems/drivers/options increased, it could take more than an hour to get through a "make config".

I haven't built my own kernel for more than 15 years, but I probably built more than a dozen before that, each of them re-compiled upon every new release (going back to 0.98).

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