hello, my hurd system is running! (after taking me almost a week of installing effort)
Since the concepts of hurd made a great impression to me, I now think about volunteering in this project. I wish to hear from you which help is most appreciated. Here are my ideas/skills: - I took some look on the sources of Hurd and GNUmach. They shouted to me: hack me, hack me, hack me! The Unix-hacking deamon in my soul awaked and responded: Yes, I will, I will, I will. But I think I do not have enough knowledge of the system to immediately start hacking it. Perhaps somebody has a small programming task for me in an undangerous area of the system, so let me know. - On the other hand, most obvious to me is the lack of documentation in the Hurd project. It took me quite a while to find all necessary doc to get the system running. After all, almost all information I needed was available, but it was distributed to several places and sometimes outdated. I think it would be of great help to people wanting to try out the Hurd if there were an installation manual also explaining the basic administration tasks. Enabling more people to try the Hurd easily will lead to more people finding errors and perhaps solutions and also more people doing some programming work on the Hurd. Since this will speed the development of the Hurd, I consider good documentation very important to this project. So I think I will start to improve the documentation, if not you guys tell me that some other task is much more urgent. So please tell me what work is needed. Matthias
