Re: GNU/Hurd in german news

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Dienstag, 10. November 2009 14:39:15 schrieb Thomas Schwinge:
> > If you have a reference to that, it would be a great comment to the 
> > article. 
> It's in the manual, right in the section where you'd expect it to be:
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#History>

... should have googled... sorry. 

> > Does anyone have a screenshot of GNU/Hurd running X with a nice looking 
> > desktop? 
> 
> What would be the benefit of starting such a low-level ``slander'': ``My
> Desktop picture is prettier than yours!''.  The Apple guys would always
> win, probably.  (At least in some obscure metric.)  I'm not going to
> participate in such a ``discussion'', neither do I suggest to others to
> go this path.  

That's no discussion, but a simple PR thing: "Show your features". If the Hurd 
can run a graphical desktop, there should be a screenshot of that. 

It doesn't matter which desktop, but only the general capability: We can use a 
(more or less) rich desktop with the Hurd.

Even if most potential Hurd developers mostly use the shell and know not to 
measure a kernel by the desktop, these can be put off by a vocal "it can't even 
do X" crowd. 

Best wishes, 
Arne

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