Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-10-01 Thread Olaf Buddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 11:40:32AM +0200, Jan Wielkiewicz wrote: > Dnia 2020-08-19, o godz. 10:41:42 Samuel Thibault > napisa??(a): > > There seems to be some move in there, see > > https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/08/18/laying-the-foundation-for-rusts-future.html > Yes, I saw this, but

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-09-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Richard Braun, le mar. 22 sept. 2020 13:28:42 +0200, a ecrit: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 06:39:29PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > One way to avoid the bug is to use the e1000 hardware network type. I > > guess the rtl8139 driver that we ship in netdde has a bug in its irq > > handling (we had

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-09-22 Thread Richard Braun
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 06:39:29PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > One way to avoid the bug is to use the e1000 hardware network type. I > guess the rtl8139 driver that we ship in netdde has a bug in its irq > handling (we had already seen that kind of bug a long time ago in the > IDE driver).

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-09-13 Thread Almudena Garcia
Hello again: I've just found this page, of Redox OS project, which can be a good reference about how to structure the webpage in a useful way. https://www.redox-os.org/ It's a pretty simple webpage, mostly written in HTML, and maybe PHP. It includes a bit of javascript, but I think that It's

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-09-09 Thread gfleury
hi, 9 septembre 2020 20:04 "Nala Ginrut" a écrit: > Hi there! > > Jan Wielkiewicz writes: > >> Third question: >> Do you have anything against Rust contributions into the project? My >> friend is interested in contributing, but unfortunately in Rust, not C. >> I wonder if rump drivers could

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-09-09 Thread Nala Ginrut
Hi there! Jan Wielkiewicz writes: > Third question: > Do you have anything against Rust contributions into the project? My > friend is interested in contributing, but unfortunately in Rust, not C. > I wonder if rump drivers could be written in Rust, thanks > to the Hurd's modular architecture.

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-09-07 Thread Joshua Branson
Thanks! I suppose that pricing refers to how much it would cost to host your website on my GNU/Hurd servers. (Please bear in mind that I currently have 0 GNU/Hurd servers). :( Joshua -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-09-05 Thread Almudena Garcia
> Also, you might take some inspiration from my gnu-hurd.com website. It's beautiful!! :-) What do you refer to as "Pricing"? From where do you get this price? It's a curiosity El sáb., 5 sept. 2020 a las 15:27, Joshua Branson () escribió: > > Also, you might take some inspiration from my

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-09-05 Thread Joshua Branson
Also, you might take some inspiration from my gnu-hurd.com website. https://notabug.org/jbranso/gnu-hurd.com -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-30 Thread Almudena Garcia
I've just remembered that, in my document, I forgot to add information about how to compile GNU Mach and Hurd in the "How to contribute" section. For GNU Mach, you can get information here: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/microkernel/mach/gnumach/building.html This document is incomplete, and

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Richard Braun, le ven. 28 août 2020 18:33:03 +0200, a ecrit: > On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 06:51:27PM +0200, Jan Wielkiewicz wrote: > > Also navigation is too complicated and messy, searching doesn't work at > > all, because https://darnassus.sceen.net/cgi-bin/hurd-web is dead half > > of the time. >

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-28 Thread Richard Braun
On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 06:51:27PM +0200, Jan Wielkiewicz wrote: > Also navigation is too complicated and messy, searching doesn't work at > all, because https://darnassus.sceen.net/cgi-bin/hurd-web is dead half > of the time. > Any special wishes? By the way, the main reason why that website is

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-25 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
Dnia 2020-08-25, o godz. 00:04:58 Almudena Garcia napisał(a): > Jan. I've just written a little draft to help you with the website. > > The draft includes some suggestions about index, and some sections > like "getting started" (how to download, test, and install Hurd, > putting Debian GNU/Hurd

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-24 Thread Almudena Garcia
Jan. I've just written a little draft to help you with the website. The draft includes some suggestions about index, and some sections like "getting started" (how to download, test, and install Hurd, putting Debian GNU/Hurd as example), and "how to contribute", with some tips about how to write

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-20 Thread Richard Braun
On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 01:28:42AM +0200, Richard Braun wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:10:53PM +0200, Almudena Garcia wrote: > > We have to leave the 90s ideas, and think as younger people thinks nowadays I mean, really, you have to keep in mind that the Hurd originated in the 80s/90s, and

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-20 Thread Richard Braun
On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:24:50PM +0200, Jan Wielkiewicz wrote: > Please stop arguing, everyone. > I already made some notes about how to make the web page more readable, > we'll be judging the effects when its done. > Don't waste more time on arguing than it's worth. This discussion relates to

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-20 Thread Richard Braun
On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:10:53PM +0200, Almudena Garcia wrote: > > I don't want to work with people who give up because it takes them > > more than a few seconds to find information, or who evaluate a project > > based on the look of its web site. > This is a prejudice, in fact. The definition

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-20 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
Dnia 2020-08-19, o godz. 23:48:26 Samuel Thibault napisał(a): > Jan Wielkiewicz, le lun. 17 août 2020 01:33:41 +0200, a ecrit: > > > I know. That still does not mean I understand the *reasoning*. > > > > > Life is often about accidents, not about reasoning. > > Discovering something by

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-20 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
Dnia 2020-08-20, o godz. 18:06:02 Richard Braun napisał(a): > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 03:19:56PM +0200, Almudena Garcia wrote: > > But, about the website, if I remember well, this thread started > > because of an offer to update the website. > > Why don't we accept the offer? > > > > It's a bad

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Almudena Garcia, le jeu. 20 août 2020 23:10:53 +0200, a ecrit: > We have to leave the 90s ideas, and think as younger people thinks nowadays > (It > don't refers to think as a teenager, simply remove elitists ideas and > prejudices about "who merit work in this project") It's not a question of

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-20 Thread Almudena Garcia
> I don't want to work with people who give up because it takes them > more than a few seconds to find information, or who evaluate a project > based on the look of its web site. This is a prejudice, in fact. If we want to attract new users who can become contributors, we have to make the

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-20 Thread Richard Braun
On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 03:19:56PM +0200, Almudena Garcia wrote: > But, about the website, if I remember well, this thread started because of > an offer to update the website. > Why don't we accept the offer? > > It's a bad idea to reject this type of offer only for prejudices about the >

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-20 Thread Almudena Garcia
> The reason the Hurd doesn't have a good web site, or good documentation, or good performance, or > good device support, etc..., is the same as always : too few people. But, about the website, if I remember well, this thread started because of an offer to update the website. Why don't we accept

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-20 Thread Richard Braun
On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 02:32:03AM +0200, Almudena Garcia wrote: > > Every year or couple of year has its own marketting trend, and if you > > don't follow it each time (thus consuming your time just for that), > In fact, It's not necessary to follow the hype about a technology or a > trend. > But

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-20 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
Samuel Thibault writes: > Almudena Garcia, le jeu. 20 août 2020 00:03:08 +0200, a ecrit: >> > But deciding to have a look at some project only because the website is all >> > shiny, no. >> It is more important than you're thinking now. > > AGAIN I'm saying it's not "important". What I'm saying

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-19 Thread Almudena Garcia
> Every year or couple of year has its own marketting trend, and if you > don't follow it each time (thus consuming your time just for that), In fact, It's not necessary to follow the hype about a technology or a trend. But It's not necessary to follow the hype to create a beautiful webpage. The

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Almudena Garcia, le jeu. 20 août 2020 00:03:08 +0200, a ecrit: > > But deciding to have a look at some project only because the website is all > > shiny, no. > It is more important than you're thinking now. AGAIN I'm saying it's not "important". What I'm saying is that I don't understand the

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-19 Thread Almudena Garcia
> But deciding to have a look at some project only because the website is all shiny, no. It is more important than you're thinking now. So many times, when I talk about Hurd with friends, my friends are afraid because the website is old, ugly, out-of-date, and very confusing. All the time I have

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joshua Branson, le mar. 18 août 2020 10:25:17 -0400, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault writes: > > Jan Wielkiewicz, le dim. 16 août 2020 21:00:26 +0200, a ecrit: > >> > More than a grant, it's people that we would need (yes, a grant could > >> > help here but in the end it's people that matter). > >> I

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jan Wielkiewicz, le lun. 17 août 2020 01:33:41 +0200, a ecrit: > > I know. That still does not mean I understand the *reasoning*. > > > Life is often about accidents, not about reasoning. Discovering something by accident, yes. But deciding to have a look at some project only because the website

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-19 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
Dnia 2020-08-19, o godz. 10:41:42 Samuel Thibault napisał(a): > There seems to be some move in there, see > > https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/08/18/laying-the-foundation-for-rusts-future.html Yes, I saw this, but nothing especially indicates they will make the trademarks more user-friendly.

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jan Wielkiewicz, le dim. 16 août 2020 21:00:26 +0200, a ecrit: > Dnia 2020-08-16, o godz. 16:39:12 > Samuel Thibault napisał(a): > > That being said, see fsf's concern about the "rust" trademark: > > https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Rust > If this is the case, this needs to be also solved in Guix.

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-18 Thread Joshua Branson
Jan Wielkiewicz writes: > Dnia 2020-08-16, o godz. 09:44:38 > Joshua Branson napisał(a): >> I'll email the leader the libre-risc-v and let him know about the >> libre-soc.org website. Those guys should work together! > They're the same actually :) > They changed the name, because they

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-18 Thread Joshua Branson
Jan Wielkiewicz writes: > Dnia 2020-08-17, o godz. 00:07:25 > Samuel Thibault napisał(a): > >> I know. That still does not mean I understand the *reasoning*. >> > Life is often about accidents, not about reasoning. I discovered GNU by > an accident, because of a proprietary game. Sounds stupid,

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-18 Thread Joshua Branson
Samuel Thibault writes: > Jan Wielkiewicz, le dim. 16 août 2020 21:00:26 +0200, a ecrit: >> > More than a grant, it's people that we would need (yes, a grant could >> > help here but in the end it's people that matter). >> I believe the website could help here, explanation below. May I suggest

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-18 Thread Joshua Branson
Jan Wielkiewicz writes: > Dnia 2020-08-16, o godz. 16:39:12 > Samuel Thibault napisał(a): > >> Hello, > Currently the latest news on the website are "2016-12-18-releases". > I'm not talking about news from https://darnassus.sceen.net/ , because > it is not accessible from the official website

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-18 Thread Joshua Branson
You may also be interested in looking at this: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/weblogs/ArneBab/how-i-write-a-qoth.html It gives you a roadmap about how to regularly write about GNU/Hurd updates! It's awesome to have you aboard the team! -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-18 Thread Joshua Branson
You could also check out my GNU/Hurd cheatsheet. It's got lots of ideas on the wiki that could use some updating: https://notabug.org/jbranso/cheatsheets/src/master/hurd.org#wiki -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-17 Thread Almudena Garcia
> > > That'd be great! See the previous editions for the topics, but basically > > anything about what is happening would be useful to talk about. > > Are there any features present in the latest images that weren’t in the 2019 > release that could be the basis of a post? > I have to admit I

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-16 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
Dnia 2020-08-17, o godz. 00:07:25 Samuel Thibault napisał(a): > Whatever the "ideal" target would be (we have previously seen people > saying arm would be), not targetting x86 as well looks like suicide to > me. I see. > Why would they need to be? A firmware is not supposed to be > OS-specific.

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Andrew Eggenberger, le dim. 16 août 2020 17:49:37 -0500, a ecrit: > > That'd be great! See the previous editions for the topics, but basically > > anything about what is happening would be useful to talk about. > > Are there any features present in the latest images that weren’t in the 2019 >

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-16 Thread Andrew Eggenberger
Hi Samuel That'd be great! See the previous editions for the topics, but basically > anything about what is happening would be useful to talk about. Are there any features present in the latest images that weren’t in the 2019 release that could be the basis of a post? I’ve been following the

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jan Wielkiewicz, le dim. 16 août 2020 21:00:26 +0200, a ecrit: > > More than a grant, it's people that we would need (yes, a grant could > > help here but in the end it's people that matter). > I believe the website could help here, explanation below. Sure. But also see below. > > Being able to

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Andrew Eggenberger, le dim. 16 août 2020 12:55:29 -0500, a ecrit: > I'd be willing to write updates for the website on a regular basis with some > guidance about topics. That'd be great! See the previous editions for the topics, but basically anything about what is happening would be

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-16 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
Dnia 2020-08-16, o godz. 09:44:38 Joshua Branson napisał(a): > Jan Wielkiewicz writes: > > Hey Jan, > > I'm an occasional Hurd web contribute (I haven't contributed anything > useful in a while). I'm not really a Hurd developer, but if I can > motivate/encourage you to achieve your goal,

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-16 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
Dnia 2020-08-16, o godz. 16:39:12 Samuel Thibault napisał(a): > Hello, > > More than a grant, it's people that we would need (yes, a grant could > help here but in the end it's people that matter). I believe the website could help here, explanation below. > Being able to work on people's

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-16 Thread Andrew Eggenberger
I'd be willing to write updates for the website on a regular basis with some guidance about topics. One of the problems I'd had using the hurd websites is that information is often duplicated with minor variations and little indication of what is most up-to-date or relevant or its presentation

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le dim. 16 août 2020 16:39:12 +0200, a ecrit: > > Do you have anything against if I and my friend modernized the website? > > It looks like abandonware and is really harmful for the project. > > It depends what you call "modernization". Putting javascript etc. is > basically a

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Jan Wielkiewicz, le sam. 15 août 2020 18:51:27 +0200, a ecrit: > I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but there's a compeletely libre > CPU+GPU OpenPOWER chip in development and I think supporting it in > the Hurd will be crucial for free software. > https://libre-soc.org/ That would be

Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-16 Thread Joshua Branson
Jan Wielkiewicz writes: Hey Jan, I'm an occasional Hurd web contribute (I haven't contributed anything useful in a while). I'm not really a Hurd developer, but if I can motivate/encourage you to achieve your goal, please let me know! > Hello, > > I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but

A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

2020-08-15 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
Hello, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but there's a compeletely libre CPU+GPU OpenPOWER chip in development and I think supporting it in the Hurd will be crucial for free software. https://libre-soc.org/ Full source code is available, drivers and firmware will be also under a free license.