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<Serentty>Hi everyone! I recently set up GNU Hurd as a childhurd in Guix. It has been a lot of fun trying out the GNU userland with it, and the microkernel architecture is pretty fascinating to learn about. Do people here have any recommendations on things to try with it?

<nexussfan>if you are using real hardware, have you tried rumpnet?

<Serentty>I’m using a Guix childhurd, which spins up a VM that is configured using the host’s package manager. So I would assume that is not what you mean by “real hardware.” I will check out rumpnet though.

<nexussfan>amd64 or i386?

<Serentty>Guix sets it up as 32-bit. I am not sure if there is an option for 64-bit yet. I am guessing 64-bit was way too new when they first implemented the feature in Guix but I don’t know for sure.

<nexussfan>does the default networking driver work? or do you need to set up rumpnet?

<damo22>nexussfan: rumpnet is highly experimental at this point and does not work on amd64 yet

<nexussfan>i know that, i've tested it myself :P

<damo22>guix + childhurd is a qemu i386 as far as i know

<nexussfan>oh. how does networking work in qemu?

<damo22>it uses netdde

<nexussfan>okay

<damo22>which talks to the virtual slirp network through the host to a virtual nic

<Serentty>Yeah, networking definitely works because I use SSH to connect to the VM.

<nexussfan>do any browsers work better on i386 than amd64? the only browser for amd64 hurd is "surf"

<Serentty>I am not sure. I never did any GUI stuff. I could look into doing that over X11 forwarding.

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