HELLO, DEBIAN!!
So, my friend and I have been on the fence on which kernel to use over the past
year or so. I think the one that fits us best is Hurd, though we've attempted
Linux. I'm almost 18, and have been wanting to do this for awhile.
Let me explain: I want to get started working with you guys sometime in the
next week or so when I have time. I'm a friendly, so please don't pull out your
flamethrowers (I've been to many a development community and a lot of them can
be rabid dogs waiting to bite) :-)
If possible, could one of you please walk me through what I would need to do to
port Debian GNU/Hurd to amd64 (aka x86-64 or simply x64)? I've got some things
with this form of Debian that I'd be interested in working with, but first I'd
like to help everyone else get it off the ground and somewhat stable first. I'm
interested because I ran it in VirtualBox once and let me just tell you that
even though the userland looked identical to Debian Standard, the theory of how
the system was running amazed me.
Another thing: Apparently Debian is having issues with compiling things to
32bit architectures due to removal of features in GCC, so we do need to get on
the ball with going through to amd64. I would love to help recompile the base
system to x86-64 architectures (specifically, help to get it working with UEFI
machines, half of which I'm still struggling to understand the mind**** created
by that group) and help get it up to speed with everyone else.
It's an interesting concept, it really is, I'd just like to see it survive.
Thanks,MGage
