Hi Dirk,
From: Dirk Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hurd and Grub - WWW and Documentation
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 18:57:10 +0200 (CEST)
> 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.)
Your analysis is definitely correct and I bet that it is mostly
because the maintainers don't work actively. IIRC, the FSF was looking
for a new maintainer for the Hurd project a while ago, perhaps so that
someone could develop Hurd more quickly. I don't know what happened
with that, though.
> > 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.
I don't think so, because people rarely choose better things - they
just use betean programs in almost all cases. Of course, there're some
chances, since GNU/Linux distributors can force the GNU/Linux users to
install new things. I hope that more people will use Linux Mandrake or
OpenLinux...
Okuji
