Barry Schwartz 🫖
@chemoelectric@masto.ai
@eruwero@ieji.de @mcrocker@indieweb.social It doesn’t run, as far as anyone knows, except in virtual machines. :) You are definitely on your own if you try to install it in hardware. It is just basically just a very fancy toy.
Things that are done with FUSE in Linux are just natural in HURD. An ftp connection is just a file, for instance.
I think the same thing may be true in Plan 9 BTW. You can run that in a virtual machine, too.
The only filesystem in HURD is ext2 modified for unlimited file length. :)
Barry Schwartz 🫖@chemoelectric@masto.ai
@eruwero@ieji.de @mcrocker@indieweb.social That is because GNU design principles call for no artificial limitations such as filename length limitations. That is one of the things that went to heck when everyone settled on Linux. Linus Torvalds had no such design principle!
I am in favor of GNU’s design principle here. I prefer their C indentation format, too.
(Richard Stallman may be a much bigger jerk but Emacs is a better program than Linux, too. In fact I was using Emacs before there was a GNU Emacs.)