Re: A Hurd release

[Bas Wijnen]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    - mozilla and/or mozilla firefox should run.
>    - gnome and/or kde should run.
>    - probably OpenOffice.org as well.
>
> ... are not related to the Hurd.
>
>    - decent network support (including dhcp).
>
> We have DHCP now it seems,

Oh, I had the feeling a program like dhclient still needed to be 
written/ported to use the new support.  If not, that's even better.  :-)

> don't know what "decent network support".

Oh that might just be a misconception of me.  I have the feeling 
hardware support for network cards is a bit of a hack.  I'd like that to 
be improved, but that may not actually be possible with Mach.

Thanks,
Bas

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