2016 is the year of Hurd on the desktop (a pseudo effortpost)

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Mr. Nice!: Oct 13, 2005; c-spam cannot afford

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# ? Feb 18, 2016 18:29

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# ? May 15, 2024 15:57

Mr. Nice!: Oct 13, 2005; c-spam cannot afford

after actually reading this its cool and good

# ? Feb 18, 2016 19:03

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

Testiclops posted:

yeah see if you can get sound working

hurd? more like didn't hear

# ? Feb 18, 2016 19:03

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

so far not looking as slick as plan9

good writeup, op.

# ? Feb 18, 2016 19:31

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

computer toucher posted:

Wait, why the hell would you change your name from "Michael" to "Thomas"?!

he's a monk but not the poverty-vowing kind cos he pulls six figgies at google now

# ? Feb 18, 2016 20:20

Raere: Dec 13, 2007

Prior to August 2015, there was absolutely zero sound support in Hurd.

Then this guy (initials RMH :crossarms:

) put out a patched mplayer "using the Rump kernel embedded in a library and then directly linked from the multimedia program"

https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2015/08/msg00010.html

So theoretically sound works but only from this specific version of mplayer.
I followed his instructions but mplayer does not see any audio devices. Could be a problem with VirtualBox, idk

I tried playing a video too but that didn't work either at first

Then I tried manually selecting a video output mode, and found out that "dga" works!

It played a .webm (encoded in VP8 :boom:

) downloaded from gnu.org just fine (no audio of course)

So far I have to say this isn't too different from your typical Linux experience. Dare I say that Hurd might be.........usable?

# ? Feb 18, 2016 20:24

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

it's me, i'm the rump colonel

# ? Feb 18, 2016 20:27

craisins: May 17, 2004; A DRIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!

jony ive aces posted:

lol @ the shameful hurd developer not writing it as "gnu/linux"

that wouldn't make sense. Hurd is a kernel. Linux is a kernel. so saying "Hurd is not Linux" is entirely accurate. Hurd doesn't replace the whole GNU operating system.

# ? Feb 18, 2016 20:31

craisins: May 17, 2004; A DRIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!

that's my seriyos post for the week

# ? Feb 18, 2016 20:32

axolotl farmer: May 17, 2007; Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

I HURD myself today
to see if I still KERNEL PANIC

# ? Feb 18, 2016 20:39

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

now make a filesystem translator that browses yospos

# ? Feb 18, 2016 21:02

Raere: Dec 13, 2007

Gazpacho posted:

now make a filesystem translator that browses yospos

a what?

# ? Feb 18, 2016 21:55

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

im still 5ing over here

# ? Feb 18, 2016 22:09

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

Raere posted:

a what?

it's a code thing for the hurd, i thought maybe you followed the last hurd thread

# ? Feb 18, 2016 22:32

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

Raere posted:

a what?

# ? Feb 18, 2016 22:34

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

modern operating systems stop you from doing dumb things. but what if you could do dumb things? would that be great or what? -- RMS

# ? Feb 18, 2016 22:34

Satellit3: Oct 21, 2008

Gazpacho posted:

it's me, i'm the rump colonel

# ? Feb 19, 2016 00:19

akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

carry on then posted:

/

judge judy for supreme court

# ? Feb 19, 2016 00:48

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Raere posted:

I also wanted to point out that just idling at the desktop with top open, it sits at between 20-30% CPU usage.

how did they manage to gently caress up Mach so badly?

# ? Feb 19, 2016 08:08

Symbolic Butt: Mar 22, 2009; (_!_); Buglord

op I'm still not convinced, what kind of gaming experience does the gnu/hurd have to offer?

# ? Feb 19, 2016 11:28

Larry Parrish: Jul 9, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

It can probably work the port of Rogue that's in most of the debian repositories no problem, unless running a BSD program from a Linux distro inside of a Hurd-based OS is too many levels of sorta-UNIX.

# ? Feb 19, 2016 11:34