Praveen's Blog

An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement

I have created a project under Sarovar.org to get some web space and mailing list for Indian GNU/Hurd Users Group. Thanks for thier fast response and the site with the mailing list is fully operational now. Have sent an invite to ILUGC. Hope atleast Shakthi and Joe Steeve ...


There were quite some posts on various blogs about Google's new OS which is based on GNU/Hurd recently. There were screenshots posted!

Whatever the verdict, it's still nice to see imaginations at work while addressing one of the hotter rumors floating around the Internet. However, if this ...


The last snapshot of GNU/Hurd that I gave a try was J2. It seems that a lot of things have improved after that. The main thing is that the 2GB limit for the ext2fs is gone now. That is a real great news. I am downloading the Debian port ...


Now I have Debian GNU/Hurd K7 CD1 and CD2. In it's present form Hurd sucks as it doesn't support IRQ sharing. For this reason I have to disable my serial port, inbuilt LAN adapter and inbuilt sound to get Hurd up and running. Real pain huh?!


Yesterday I downloaded the first disc of Debian GNU/Hurd from thier NA site and installed on my PC. I have already tried Hurd before 2 years. It was J2. Lot of changes since J2. J2 was not installable from the CD directly. This time, the installer seems to be ...