Hello Marcus Brinkmann!
On Tue, 4 July 2000 at 18:09:18, you wrote:
>
> It was good for me, because I had accesse to the Debian web site CVS and
> could deal in them to my liking. It is also good for people asking about
> information about Debian GNU/Hurd.
Of course.
> This is true. I am happy to have non-Debian specific stuff
> moved from the Debian pages and will then remove it there.
Guessed that - even though I wasn't absolutely sure about this.
> Well, currently there is not much need for maintaining, the
> information is pretty much accurate.
Nice to hear. ;-)
> OTOH, I think that of the current sites about the Hurd, each
> one can serve a specific purpose without much overlap.
Let's put it this way - I am all for people who put any kind
of effort in something GNU-related but if the contribution
is substantial then where is always the risk of duplicated
efforts sooner or later - a waste of ressources I absolutely
dislike, hence my point of view. I also have doubts - will it
work? Will they actively seek coordination or will they rather
prefer to ejoy the freedom of doing their own thing to each
others particular liking?
I won't care if there were thousands of people doing something
HURDish but that is not the situation we are in. What's worse
- the situation we are in only changes slowly, so based on
what happened over the years I would estimate that there won't
be radical changes for some time to come. It's better now
because of your efforts with Debian, but GNUmach and the core
HURD don't seem to change much. (I'm not complaining - it's
just the usual headache I get if I think of the number of
core developers involved.)
> I started doing this, and will continue to do it when I have
> some spare time.
So you still find some timeslices for this sort of thing?
Wouldn't have expected this - well - so much the better.
> I hope that GRUB will become the standard boot loader for many
> distributions, so we don't need to include much GRUB documentation
> in Hurd doc sites.
It will. That thing was even a killer when HURD 0.0 came
out together with an ancient Grub version on a floppy image.
Nuked Lilo and OS/2's dreaded Bootmanager from my system
really soon which is tough since Lilo also happens to be the
nickname of my mother. Perhaps RMS might want to port emacs
to Grub someday - well - just kidding, but compare Grub to the
competition and you will notice that you can't compare it to
anything anymore because it looks more like a BOS (Bootstrap
Operating System) than anything else. Really - I liked it
right from the start.
/bye
Dirk
