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<Ribby>Does hurd kernel have libre standards, or is it like Linux kernel? Are there any OS with hurd kernel with sufficient GNU/Linux standards?

<nexussfan>hurd has no proprietary software at the moment

<nexussfan>hopefully forever

<Ribby>Okay, that's good to know.

<nexussfan>sneek later tell jab he probably figured out a way to use icecat on trisquel or he uses some old outdated last packaged version of it

<sneek>Will do.

<nexussfan>updating my hurd...

<rrq>nexussfan: I added "extlinux" boot in crosshurd-image using syslinux' mboot module for multibooting a hurd

<nexussfan>okay

<nexussfan>hurd keeps hanging

<nexussfan>running fsck...

<nexussfan>disk i/o

<nexussfan>okay now apt is working again

<nexussfan>hey jab

<jab>nexussfan: whats up ?

<sneek>Welcome back jab, you have 1 message!

<sneek>jab, nexussfan says: he probably figured out a way to use icecat on trisquel or he uses some old outdated last packaged version of it

<jab>I just checked my junk email folder. I got another of those "give me bitcoin, or else I've send your credit card info on the black market."

<nexussfan>lol

<jab>apparently I'm a wanted man. Or I just use really bad passwords on my junk email account.

<nexussfan>does geany run on hurd/

<nexussfan>?

<jab>is that an email client ?

<nexussfan>geany is an IDE

<nexussfan>cmatrix doesn't run on hurd :(

<jab>what's cmatrix ?

<nexussfan>you know the code rain or whatever it's called from "The Matrix" movie

<Ribby>Isn't that proprietary license, cmatrix?

<sam_>no?

<sam_>it's gpl-3, why do you think that

<Ribby>It would be weird if there's a copyright law against the program.

<sam_>it's just a bunch of flying text, it's not copyrighted lol

<Ribby>Wonder what runs cmatrix?

<jab>Neo apparently uses it a lot. I think a guy called mouse too.

<Ribby>I want it to return some weather/updates feed.

<nexussfan>try emacs

<Ribby>It would still run the rain, but will drop text background/foreground, filling a text section and a prompt with nano interface.

<nexussfan>the program is mostly a fun program anyway

<nexussfan>for the kali linox masterhackers

<Ribby>I would leave the creativity up to them, since they made it.

<Ribby>Is cowsay in hurd distros?

<nexussfan>Yes

<Ribby>That's good to know. :)

<etno>nexussfan: Geany works very well on Hurd. Maybe not all plugins

<etno>The LSP one works, and there is clangd

<etno>(I am speaking of debian)

<nexussfan>nice

<etno>I got Bear to work recently with a series of small patches on 'grpc' and 'gperrtools'

<etno>If one runs 'bear make' in a C/C++ project, it will intercept compiler calls and build a 'compile_commands.json' file out of the info.

<etno>Geany+LSP+clang+bear gives a very precise navigation, macro expansion, func proto expansion and hover doc display

<etno>(also exact symbol usage)

<etno>For Hurd, doesn't give much more than ctags, but for gnumach, it finds the files matching with the current config

<azeem>AFAICT, the perl testsuite does not really have any tests for using local unix sockets

<Alicia>sneek: later tell nexussfan here's all I got on building icecat for now https://ion.nu/tmp/hurd_icecat/ I think we have to fix whatever is going on with rustc memory allocation before we can get any further

<sneek>Okay.

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