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skyman8081:

--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Not on the Hurd :p
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I can see how a vaporware system can never crash. :-P

WMD:

--- Quote from: skyman8081 ---I can see how a vaporware system can never crash. :-P
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Hurd DOES exist, although not in a truly released state.  They just have snapshots, or whatever those Hurd people do.  You can download it right now (although you can't do all that much with it without compiling software out the ass, and even then)...

Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: kintaro ---The whole system could have fucked up if it was related to AGPGART. It depends what and how it fucked up, its not all black boxes. What was the actual error?
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I had changed my monitor from a crappy old 1024x768 CRT to a 1200x1600 TFT, I though it would still work with the lower resolution (Windows did) but when I booted to Vector Linux X started up as usual then after a couple of seconds it just locked up, so I rebooted with Knoppix and edited some configuration file (can't remember which one) to  change the driver to a generic VESA, I rebooted it worked. I was going to change the driver to a better one more suited to my graphics card but I ended up installing Ubuntu in the end. I'm thinking about changing again but I don't know what to try, I'd like something fairly small, preferible nom more than one CD.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: WMD ---You can download it right now (although you can't do all that much with it without compiling software out the ass, and even then)...
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Well there's Debian GNU/Hurd and it should have everything you need (note: need) in the repositories.
I was using it alot a while back, but my (nvidia) network card doesn't work (only cards that work in linux 2.0 work, as gnumach took it's drivers from linux 2.0). They have some really really cool stuff going on.

There used to be a Gentoo GNU/Hurd distribution, but it didn't last long. Some Ubuntu guy wanted to release an Ubuntu GNU/Hurd distribution, but I doubt it'll happen. There's also talk of an official distribution release.

Checkout the livecd, after reading a bit, if yer interested.

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