Re: Come watch a live stream coding session for the Hurd

Nathan Dehnel writes: > single file trivfs translator ideas (ignore if they already exist/too > difficult/impossible) > -shim: placed over a file, and replaces it with a different file. like > a symlink, but allows you to overwrite a file (the overwritten file > still exists though, it's just

Re: Announcing: a new Hurd distro, based on Alpine Linux

Sergey Bugaev writes: > Please let me know what you think! I see Alpine used the most for lightweight, high-performance docker containers. If Hurd on Alpine can provide something similarly lightweight with VMs, it may enable people to more easily experiment with the Hurd for some specific

Re: [PATCH v3] news/2023-q4.mdwn: new qoth for q4 of 2023.

Samuel Thibault writes: > Applied, thanks! > > jbra...@dismail.de, le dim. 07 janv. 2024 11:18:20 -0500, a ecrit: >> This is version 3 of the last qoth of 2023. I've incorporated Dr. >> Arne's comments. Are you already spreading this somewhere? The changes are pretty awesome! Best wishes,

Re: [PATCH v2] news/2023-q4.mdwn: new qoth for q4 of 2023.

"jbra...@dismail.de" writes: > I updated the qoth based on Sergey's suggestions. That’s awesome! I so love seeing this work continued! And the changes look great! Thank you! > +currently do this testing on via GNU/Linux, because qemu does not run Here’s a small typo: either "on" or "via".

Re: Rust support on its way!

Samuel Thibault writes: > Guy-Fleury Iteriteka, le mer. 30 août 2023 06:26:45 +0200, a ecrit: >> On August 30, 2023 1:42:30 AM GMT+02:00, Samuel Thibault >> wrote: >> >Thanks to Vedant's GSoC work, we have patches submited to upstream Rust >> >to support Rust on GNU/Hurd! >> > >> Can tou plz

Re: Hello

Ryan Raymond writes: > I have to do a senior thesis (undergrad) and I would like to document the > process of developing Hurd further. > After looking at the source code, I think there are some ways I could help. I > have lots of experience working with old software and fixing broken build >

Re: Thanks again Samuel!

jbra...@dismail.de writes: > Anthony Robbins says that "people forgot that you love them, so > be sure to remind them that you care about them." ♡ > Thanks again for all the hard work that you do Samuel! A big thank you from me, too! > We really do appreciate it. Without your tireless

Re: A deferred authorization-granting translator

"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" writes: > I created a project to ask for granting authorization when processes > access a file. It is built as a translator and a simple permission > granting program. To simplify usage there are now two helper tools: - queryauth-setup

A deferred authorization-granting translator

Hi, I created a project to ask for granting authorization when processes access a file. It is built as a translator and a simple permission granting program. The translator can delegate permission-granting to the program via two FIFO files. The goal is to create a simple replacement for the

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 released!

Samuel Thibault writes: > It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the > release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2021. This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at Awesome! > * The port of go is complete > > * Support for file record locking was added > > * Some parts of experimental

Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF

Michael Banck writes: > I don't mind that, but I also think the Hurd is not a tactical FSF asset > anymore that needs to be kept under tight control. The FSF has enough > copyright in the Hurd that it can enforce it whenever it likes, even if > other people's copyrighted code (as is already the

Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF

Maxime Devos writes: > Upgrading the GPLv2-only code might be dificult if multiple people hold > the copyright, so for the GPLv2-only code, it might be a good idea to still > require copyright assignment. When we did it for Mercurial, going from GPLv2 only to or later took years and a *lot* of

Re: Considering Making A Financial Contribution to GNU Hurd

Blair Vidakovich writes: > I have been donating money to various different free software projects > over the last few weeks, like putting a bounty on implementing OMEMO > encryption for XMPP in EMACS, and contributing to the patreon of Mezzano > OS, a LISP operating system project. Thank you

Re: Running the Hurd in qemu possibilities

Joshua Branson writes: > - and weird CAPS LOCK errors. Essentially I somehow enabled CAPS LOCK on the > qemu image, > and I could not un-CAPS LOCK. Do you by chance use a non-standard keyboard layout? I had problems like these when I used Neo via xmodmap. Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch

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

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: Three Cheers for Samuel!

Yes — thank you very much! Joan Lledó writes: > +1. Thanks Samuel! > > > El 7 de juny de 2020 14:29:14 CEST, Joshua Branson ha > escrit: >>Hey Samuel! >> >>I just want to thank you for being so diligent at maintaining and >>continuing to develop the GNU/Hurd. You are one of my heroes, and I

Re: [BLOG] A "Hello World" VM running the Hurd!

Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > We have just published a new blog post---a follow-up, in a way to last > week's April 1 post---about some real achievement: Using Guix we have > cross-built a VM image for the Hurd. Read more... > > >

Re: You might get funding from NLnet

to ask how long did you get the > reply from nlnet after you applied. I've applied for GNU Artanis since 20th > Nov, but no > reply so far. I don't know if I should ask positively. > > Thanks! > Best regards. > > Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > >> Hi, >> >>

Re: You might get funding from NLnet

Hello, Samuel Thibault writes: > Arne Babenhauserheide, le lun. 18 nov. 2019 00:40:07 +0100, a ecrit: >> I wrote a small proposal to NLnet[1] for adding sound-support for the >> Hurd (with ~5 hours per week; I don’t have more free time), and it was >> granted. > >

Re: You might get funding from NLnet

PS: This is the proposal that was granted: https://nlnet.nl/project/Hurd-Audio/ Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > Hi, > > > I wrote a small proposal to NLnet[1] for adding sound-support for the > Hurd (with ~5 hours per week; I don’t have more free time), and it was >

You might get funding from NLnet

Hi, I wrote a small proposal to NLnet[1] for adding sound-support for the Hurd (with ~5 hours per week; I don’t have more free time), and it was granted. When we talked last week to start with a concrete project plan, the responsible person asked me about the other blockers for adoption of the

Aw: Re: Reviewing Hurd-on-L4 (and considering its future?)

ware/some-technical-advantages-of-the-hurd Best wishes, Arne Babenhauserheide > -[ Begin original email ]- Original Message > From: Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> > Sent: Tue, Jun 19, 2012 06:21 PM > To: Rick C. Hodgin <foxmuldrs...@yahoo.com>

Re: hurd: PIE support

Samuel Thibault writes: > For information, that's the last bit that will allow us to enable pie on > hurd-i386, thus fixing libgcrypt20 build, and as a consequence the whole > kde set. That’s awesome! Thank you for this present! Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch sein

Re: fosdem talk?

How about “using the Hurd, examples on bare metal”? With examples how you do normal things (desktop) and cool things (anything with capabilities, translators or subhurds) with the Hurd? (maybe with screenshots, or live-presentation via camera to avoid having to setup wifi or such) Best wishes,

Re: Sound on GNU/Hurd

Am Sonntag, 16. August 2015, 23:49:15 schrieb Robert Millan: I managed to play some sound on GNU/Hurd using patched Rump and a modified mplayer. For those interested: Cool! Thank you for sharing it! Did you already share the patches in a public list? If not, could you send them here inline?

Re: A quarter of the Hurd, Q3/Q4 of 2012: *pthreads*, *hardware* and *porting*.

Hi, Am Mittwoch, 15. Mai 2013, 00:40:55 schrieb Thomas Schwinge: On Sun, 05 May 2013 00:33:27 +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide arne_...@web.de wrote: I finally managed to write the qoth for the 3rd and 4th quarter of 2012, [...] Thanks! I just spent another hour and half on this, and it's

Re: hurd_2013: Some Highlighting and a partial timeline

Hi, Am Mittwoch, 15. Mai 2013, 00:53:32 schrieb Thomas Schwinge: On Fri, 10 May 2013 22:35:57 +, Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org wrote: commit 1a4e7794497e07c9fb6497037290c0f95a298d27 Author: Arne Babenhauserheide arne_...@web.de Date: Sat May 11 00:31:53 2013 +0200

Re: A quarter of the Hurd, Q3/Q4 of 2012: *pthreads*, *hardware* and *porting*.

Hi Miguel, Am Sonntag, 5. Mai 2013, 21:42:46 schrieb Miguel Figueiredo: Em 04-05-2013 23:33, Arne Babenhauserheide escreveu: A quarter of the Hurd, Q3/Q4 of 2012: *pthreads*, *hardware* and *porting*. Based on the text I would only add new installation CDs. Looks really good. Thanks

Re: A quarter of the Hurd, Q3/Q4 of 2012: *pthreads*, *hardware* and *porting*.

Hi Michael, Am Freitag, 10. Mai 2013, 17:35:01 schrieb Michael Banck: On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 12:33:27AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: A quarter of the Hurd, Q3/Q4 of 2012: *pthreads*, *hardware* and *porting*. At the end of the last 2 quarters, Samuel Thibault pushed the [pthread

A quarter of the Hurd, Q3/Q4 of 2012: *pthreads*, *hardware* and *porting*.

Hi, I finally managed to write the qoth for the 3rd and 4th quarter of 2012, and it would be great if you could review it: http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next/ ---to simplify reading it, I pasted the text here, too--- A quarter of the Hurd, Q3/Q4 of

Re: re involved

Am Samstag, 13. April 2013, 06:26:57 schrieb James Simko: do you still need a technical writer to do documentation? Sure. Just take part in improving the wiki. You’ll have to find the stuff to write yourself, though, which will involve reading source code and running the Hurd.

Re: The Hurd, GNU, Guix, and GSoC

Hi Ludovic, Am Dienstag, 26. März 2013, 18:24:06 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: GSoC-wise, possible projects include: • porting the distribution to GNU/Hurd (but again, I’d rather rely on published source tarballs of the Hurd, libc, etc. than on Git checkouts); • working on the

qoth 2012 q1/q2, as text

Hi, I included the changes and finally managed to turn the qoth into prose - a real news item instead of a bullet list. Additionally to this mail, I also pushed it to a repo on github, just to make sure that it’s available: git://github.com/ArneBab/hurd-web.git Please comment on it here,

qoth 2012 q1/q2, preliminary

Hi, I finally got around to drafting a qoth the week before last week. I only checked bug-hurd for that, so it would be great if you could have a look at it and add any info I missed. I still need to convert this draft to prose and add a title, but I thought I’d send it now instead of stalling

Re: qoth 2012 q1/q2, preliminary

Am Montag, 17. September 2012, 23:35:35 schrieb Samuel Thibault: Arne Babenhauserheide, le Mon 17 Sep 2012 23:29:52 +0200, a écrit : * Samuel Thibault [added TLS support](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug- hurd/2012-05/msg00046.html) to Hurd, getting us up to date with the standard

Re: 64bit GNU Mach

Am Mittwoch, 5. September 2012, 15:07:15 schrieb Samuel Thibault: Arne Babenhauserheide, le Wed 05 Sep 2012 14:39:26 +0200, a écrit : Can it already be tested by nerd-god users who refuse to write patches? Userland can't boot. OK, thanks! I’ll wait for a future qoth, then. Best wishes

Re: 64bit GNU Mach

Is there any update on 64bit GNU Mach? Can it already be tested by nerd-god users who refuse to write patches? (working on the qoth) Best wishes, Arne Am Montag, 2. April 2012, 15:44:20 schrieb Richard Braun: On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 03:21:06PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Because there is

Quarter of the Hurd 2011-q4

Hi, I finished the draft for the qoth-2011-q4. Please tell me what’s missing - and what needs fixing! → http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next/ And remember: It’s a wiki, so feel free to hack it to make it better! -- A quarter of the Hurd: *Nix-based

Re: Neat Guile birthday hacks for the Hurd?

Am Freitag, 10. Februar 2012, 22:07:17 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: To celebrate Guile 2.0’s first birthday on Feb. 16th, we are organizing a challenge to produce neat hacks that integrate Guile with other (GNU) software packages:

QotH q3: Please comment on the quarter of the Hurd

I finally finished drafting the QotH (to be released on 2011-10 :) ). → http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next/ I hope you enjoy reading it! If you see stuff which should go in, or stuff we should leave out or change, please write so! -- -- --

Re: Continuously-built Nix-based QEMU image

Am Dienstag, 8. November 2011, 00:24:03 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: Hello! After a fair amount of time debugging and discussing with Samuel and others, here’s a Nix[*]-based, cross-built GNU/Hurd QEMU image: http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/hurd-master That sounds great! But “Assertion

Re: Continuously-built Nix-based QEMU image

Am Dienstag, 8. November 2011, 02:00:15 schrieb Samuel Thibault: Arne Babenhauserheide, le Tue 08 Nov 2011 01:15:05 +0100, a écrit : But “Assertion `retry == FS_RETRY_NORMAL` failed” Yes, because the automatic build hasn't reached the latest revision which does work. Ah, OK :) Definitely

Fwd: Re: Port of GNU Hurd

Am Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2011, 14:35:11 schrieb Boris Vinogradov: I need opensource microkernel rtos on arm. I can port GNU Hurd to ARM (arm9+). That would be cool! Can I forward your mail to bug-hurd@gnu.org (our main list)? Best wishes, Arne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: IRC meeting 2011-09-14

Hi Antrik, Thanks for the reminder! Best wishes, Arne At Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:12:49 +0200, Olaf Buddenhagen wrote: Hi, I forgot to mention that of course we are meeting as always today (Wednesday) at 19:00 UTC, in channel #hurd on irc.freenode.net. Feel free to join us, and/or prpose

Re: ACL and Extended Attributes in Hurd ?

Am Montag, 29. August 2011, 12:05:20 schrieb Thomas Schmitt: Ok. Maybe one should review: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/users-guide/using_gnuhurd.html#Mailing-li sts which says Maybe we should explicitely deprecate that… In bold letters, as it’s not even in the wiki. Best wishes, Arne

GHM 2011: How to get and stay there?

Hi, I know I’m a bit late, but I would love to attend this years GHM. I am not perfectly sure if I’ll manage to get it organized and financed (that’s why I did not get to write earlier: I wanted to check my options before that - but now decided to write to you first). Do you have hints how

Re: GNU GSoC: Hurd

Hi Thomas, Have fun in China! And thanks for giving us the update! Best wishes, Arne At Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:19:18 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: Next week, I'll leave for vacations in China, and will only

Refuting Hurd truths and rumors

Hi, I ported the rumor refuting news entry to the wiki: http://www.bddebian.com:/~hurd-web/news/2011-q2-ps/ Feel free to edit it, as long as it’s not yet on hurd.gnu.org Best wishes, Arne

Re: DDE - Commit fb489ff causes FTBFS

At Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:53:27 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Svante Signell, le Thu 30 Jun 2011 12:10:44 +0200, a écrit : On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 20:06 -0400, Stephen Gilles wrote: I had been trying to build DDE packages for Arch Hurd for a while, and aft Nice to see that DDE is

Re: Released the QotH 2011-q2 to the wiki: please proofread!

At Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:46:25 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: I did some further changes and now published it. thanks!

Released the QotH 2011-q2 to the wiki: please proofread!

Hi, I now released Qoth 2011-q2 to the wiki. Please proofread it, before Thomas pulls it to hurd.g.o (hopefully this evening). → http://www.bddebian.com:/~hurd-web/news/2011-q2/ “Official” release time is today 23:42 UTC :) Best wishes, Arne

Re: Released the QotH 2011-q2 to the wiki: please proofread!

At Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:33:37 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: Change freekbsd to kFreeBSD, I think that is the official abbreviation. Fixed, thanks!

MotH 2011-06

Hi, I just finished turning the MotH from a list of keywords into a text. It would be nice if you could have a look! → http://www.bddebian.com:/~hurd-web/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next/ A month of the Hurd: *graphical installer*, *GSoC*, and *Debian inclusion plan*. [[!if

Writing the MotH: Questions

Hi, Could you have a look at the items for the next MotH - and what I missed? It is now written directly in the wiki, so that it is much easier to contribute. → http://www.bddebian.com:/~hurd- web/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next/ An important question I have is what the plan for

Re: CD set

On Sunday 05 June 2011 11:38:38 Samuel Thibault wrote: olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Sat 04 Jun 2011 02:15:44 +0200, a écrit : Someone lacking a good internet connection probably won't have much fun with the Hurd anyways... How about someone who does not get his network card running in the

Re: IRC meeting 2011-06-01

On Tuesday 31 May 2011 06:07:42 olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: As nobody followed up on the last inquiry, we are sticking with Wednesday 19:00 UTC for our weekly IRC meeting. (#hurd on irc.freenode.net as usual.) I’ll try to be there. Please call my name in IRC (ArneBab) should I not say hello

Re: CD set

On Friday 27 May 2011 17:32:40 Samuel Thibault wrote: The 10th June deadline of our vaporware competitor is approaching. I've built another Debian CD set yesterday, which fixes a few things, and... tadam! has a working graphical installer! That’s great news! Many thanks for your work! - Arne

Re: CD set

Wish: A download link, so I can put it in the news :) Best wishes, Arne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: CD set

On Sunday 29 May 2011 20:09:06 Samuel Thibault wrote: Arne Babenhauserheide, le Sun 29 May 2011 16:08:30 +0200, a écrit : Wish: A download link, so I can put it in the news :) Same as before, http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/ Ah, yes. Thanks! signature.asc

Re: IRC meeting 2011-05-10

On Tuesday 10 May 2011 12:07:53 Oz wrote: On 5/9/11, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: Just a quick reminder for the IRC meeting on Tuesday 19:00, as usual irc.freenode.net channel #hurd. Tell us if there is anything you want to discuss! :-) 1900 what time zone? UTC.

Re: forwarded proposal to finance some hurd work

On Wednesday 20 April 2011 12:33:24 Thomas Schwinge wrote: (I'm assuming you're somewhat familiar with the Google Summer of Code; if not please say so.) For the GSoC, we got more good applications than we can accept (which is obviously limited by Google). My idea is that we could perhaps use

Re: IRC meeting 2011-04-19

On Tuesday 19 April 2011 10:46:00 olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: As always, we are meeting today (Tuesday) at 19:00 UTC on freenode.net, channel #hurd, to discuss Hurd-related topics in real time. If there is anything you want to talk about, please speak up, so we can add it to the agenda :-)

[PATCH] Removed deprecated LINTLIBRARY #ifdefs

mach/mach_traps.h: Removed LINTLIBRARY #ifdefs. mach/message.h: Removed LINTLIBRARY #ifdefs. --- include/mach/mach_traps.h | 20 include/mach/message.h| 34 +- 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: [PATCH] Removed deprecated LINTLIBRARY #ifdefs

On Monday 18 April 2011 22:19:01 Samuel Thibault wrote: Arne Babenhauserheide, le Mon 18 Apr 2011 21:40:58 +0200, a écrit : mach/mach_traps.h: Removed LINTLIBRARY #ifdefs. mach/message.h: Removed LINTLIBRARY #ifdefs. Applied, thanks. Cool! That was fast! Best wishes, Arne

Re: [PATCH 0 of 3] Making PyHurd build again under cython 0.14.1.

Hi, At Fri, 8 Apr 2011 21:05:55 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: This patch makes pyhurd build again under cython 0.14.1. You should rather Cc: it to Anatoly, who will (hopefully) be your mentor... I will. I CCed it to you, because we discussed in IRC and because I value your input.

Re: [PATCH 1 of 3] switch license to GPLv3 so we can include files under Apache 2.0. For details, see: http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html

At Fri, 8 Apr 2011 21:11:01 +0200, Hi, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: switch license to GPLv3 so we can include files under Apache 2.0. For details, see: http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html That's way to long for a Patch title. Move the second sentence to the body of

GSoC Application: PyHurd

information - Name: Arne Babenhauserheide - E-Mail Address: arne_...@web.de - IRC-nick: ArneBab @ freenode - Jabber-ID: a...@jabber.fsfe.org - Phone-number: X - GnuPG key: http://draketo.de/inhalt/ich/pubkey.txt ## Who I am I am a physics student from Heidelberg, Germany, a passionate free

Re: Fwd: hurd computer bought the farm

On Friday 01 April 2011 20:45:09 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: modprobe kvm qemu -cdrom hurd-0.401.iso how about this one? qemu-kvm -cdrom hurd-april-first-2011.iso If there is anything I can do to give you more detail to isolate what's the problem, just email me. Yesterday we

Fwd: hurd computer bought the farm

Can someone help David? -- Forwarded Message -- Hi there, I figured I would try to run the new hurd released iso, but I got the bought the farm message when trying it in Ubuntu 11.04 - the Natty Narwhal - released in April 2011. When running the following command: apt-get

forwarded proposal to finance some hurd work

forwarded from help-hurd On Sunday 27 March 2011 16:04:55 Tanguy LE CARROUR wrote: Hi, 2011/3/26 Robert Brockway rob...@timetraveller.org Quite a number of organisations exist to manage the finances of OSS projects, eg SPI[1]. The problem is how do the developers get the money if they are

Re: build nsmux missing linker (patch)

On Friday 25 March 2011 00:39:54 Samuel Thibault wrote: These are not supposed to be missing, they'll be explicited in /usr/lib/libc.so in libc0.3=2.11.2-14. You can do it by hand: simply append INPUT ( AS_NEEDED ( -lmachuser -lhurduser ) ) Where do I add that? Directly in /usr/lib/libc.so

Re: build nsmux missing linker (patch)

On Friday 25 March 2011 10:15:20 Samuel Thibault wrote: Arne Babenhauserheide, le Fri 25 Mar 2011 09:47:43 +0100, a écrit : On Friday 25 March 2011 00:39:54 Samuel Thibault wrote: INPUT ( AS_NEEDED ( -lmachuser -lhurduser ) ) Directly in /usr/lib/libc.so sounds strange… It's not. See

Re: Build of emacs_23.2+1-7

Hi Svante, On the long term I will likely need the lisp files, because I want to setup emacs in Hurd to mirror my local setup → make it a real work environment for me. Or are the *.el files just the uncompiled lisp files with the *.elc files already included? … *el is still important: For

Re: ext3 or other journalling file system for Hurd?

On Tuesday 25 January 2011 06:34:33 olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: Does a priority wish list exist for the development, Nope. Every developer has different priorities... Having said that, some kind of generic roadmap still would be useful -- but so far nobody got around to compile one

Re: Build of emacs_23.2+1-7

On Thursday 24 March 2011 13:16:52 Svante Signell wrote: Looks like the *.elc files are in emacs23-common while the *.el files are in emacs23-el (uncompiled and compressed). Do you still want them? Only if it’s not too much effort. … *el is still important: For the integrated help. What

build nsmux missing linker (patch)

Hi, nsmux from incubator did not build for me. This change makes it build (I hope the commit message is halfways acceptable - if not, feel free to change it): commit 05754cdb5456a6dbc04b864780ee40fe065c4796 Author: Arne Babenhauserheide (on hurd) a...@draketo.de Date: Thu Mar 24 18:53

build tarfs missing linker (patch)

Same as with nsmux: commit 8b44ac43392314ead5c686ac74484b6190b3dfce Author: Arne Babenhauserheide (on hurd) a...@draketo.de Date

Re: bootable usb

On Saturday 26 February 2011 13:15:10 Samuel Thibault wrote: i don't think copy and pasting the ISO in to the thumb drive (usb stick) will work. dd mini.iso /dev/sda Does it boot from the USB key? I thought the Hurd were still missing USB support? Best wishes, Arne signature.asc

Re: bootable usb

On Sunday 27 February 2011 14:45:27 Samuel Thibault wrote: dd mini.iso /dev/sda Does it boot from the USB key? It will, yes. I thought the Hurd were still missing USB support? But grub isn't, and that's what matters here. Uh, argl, argl… ARGH! That means, I could have installed a

Re: bootable usb

On Sunday 27 February 2011 18:40:00 Samuel Thibault wrote: Err, I don't mean you can read/write a USB stick from GNU/Hurd, just that grub can boot whatever it likes from a USB stick, thus GNU/Hurd among others. Actual filesystem access is another matter. Can I read/write from/to the root

Re: bootable usb

On Sunday 27 February 2011 19:25:56 Samuel Thibault wrote: Only in memory, no writeback is possible since grub doesn't live any more once gnumach is booted. Damn, and I had hoped, I could at last use a real baremetal Hurd… Well, seems I’ll still have to wait for real USB-support… - Arne

Re: Patch for settrans --help

Hi Roland, On Monday 14 February 2011 18:00:10 Roland McGrath wrote: if you don't know the basics of Hurd design like the definitions of active and passive translator, then you really don't want to be using settrans in the first place. I disagree. settrans is the basic building block of

Re: GSoC 2011

Hi, On Thursday 10 February 2011 03:26:51 olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 06:33:46PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: That doesn't look to me like something we can really propose as GSoC. Why not?... “Polish the working d-i for GNU Hurd to bring it on par with the d-i

Re: YotH 2010 -- a Year of the Hurd 2010

On Monday 24 January 2011 09:02:40 Thomas Schwinge wrote: - Arch Hurd (in just ... months! First a liveCD, then Hamp and a full desktop (emacs ), now graphical!) Uhm, yes... forgot to ask: merge or not merge? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: YotH 2010 -- a Year of the Hurd 2010

Hallo Thomas, Here’s a first stab at integrating the changes. Feel free to comment on it :) (I know you will :) ) # HG changeset patch # User Arne Babenhauserheide b...@draketo.de # Date 1295884334 -3600 # Node ID f182ae60627ee3346c42a267736f01be8d6e30cb # Parent

Re: YotH 2010 -- a Year of the Hurd 2010

On Wednesday 12 January 2011 02:16:19 olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 11:37:09PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: Prompted by Karl Berry who is currently preparing a general GNU status report, I just contributed the following text -- a Year of the Hurd 2010! Oh

Re: YotH 2010 -- a Year of the Hurd 2010

On Wednesday 12 January 2011 16:04:29 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: * “Why should I contribute to the Hurd *now*?” and * “Isn’t the Hurd like Duke Nukem Forever?” – well, maybe, but isn’t that going to be released this year, too? ;) → http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=109904

Re: MotH 2010-10

Posted in identi.ca and twitter: - http://identi.ca/notice/60858141 - http://twitter.com/ArneBab/status/17476207968788481 Thanks for writing the news! Best wishes, Arne PS: My diploma will be (has to be) done on 3.1., so I’ll have more time again, then. On Monday 20 December 2010 12:15:12

qemu-kvm – really, really fast

Hi, I just used qemu-kvm to run my Hurd for the first time, and it is fast, really fast! Just wanted to share the experience :) (I’ve got a new CPU which supports KVM). Best wishes, Arne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: September Month of the Hurd

Hi Thomas, On Saturday 23 October 2010 15:03:19 Thomas Schwinge wrote: Here we go; Arne, this one's for you! Many thanks! | Yes, we're a bit late this month. Arne Babenhauserheide, the guy who has | started and has been drafting the *Month of the Hurd* ever since June | 2010 (yes

Re: September Month of the Hurd

Hi Thomas, On Saturday 23 October 2010 15:03:19 Thomas Schwinge wrote: Here we go; Arne, this one's for you! And here comes that warm fuzzy feeling to have been doing something good and see it being appreciated. Thank you! — Arne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Month of the Hurd 2010-08

On Sunday 12 September 2010 18:18:58 Michael S. Walker wrote: The LiveCD, like the Arch Linux LiveCDs, only consists of a very minimal base system with which to install a full Arch Hurd system. It doesn't include X. Would the following be more correct? And the Arch Hurd team released a new

Re: Month of the Hurd 2010-08

On Monday 13 September 2010 09:09:38 Anatoly A. Kazantsev wrote: [released a new LiveCD](http://www.archhurd.org/news/17) ([changes](http://www.barrucadu.co.uk/arch-hurd-livecd-i686-core-2010-0 8-25iso)) Please, swap the link :-) swapped :) Best wishes, Arne signature.asc

Month of the Hurd 2010-08

Hi, I pushed the news to bddebian: → http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/news/2010-08-31/ If there’s something missing, please tell me! This month you can get a lot of insight into the Hurd very easily by watching the presentations from Neal Walfield and Michael Bank on Hurd at the GHM

Re: Problems with signal delivery

On Thursday 02 September 2010 17:56:24 Samuel Thibault wrote: Signal handling is known to be crappy in glibc so it's not really a surprise. If you can find a fix, that's great, but Roland expected to rewrite the whole thing some day. Actually I would prefer having a fix now to having a clean

Re: Summary: what we need for day-to-day use; was: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?

On Saturday 14 August 2010 12:13:05 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: “What we need: → link — for !Hurd hackers to be” Dent written: „What we need: USB, wireless, sound → http://gnu.org/software/hurd/community/weblogs/ArneBab/what_we_need.html — for !Hurd hackers to be !gnu“ → http

Re: Cross-builds on Hydra now with Parted

Hi Ludovic, On Wednesday 25 August 2010 17:59:14 Ludovic Courtès wrote: Starting from today, Hydra continuously cross-builds the Hurd [0] against a fresh checkout of GNU Parted, which should make it easy to spot any incompatibilities introduced between the two. Many thanks for setting it up!

Summary: what we need for day-to-day use; was: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?

Hi, On Monday 12 July 2010 08:41:49 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: What is currently missing in the Hurd distibutions to make it fullfill your basic needs for your day-to-day work or hobby? I’ll try to summarize the answers, ordered by the number of people who need them: - USB (5): Arne, ms

Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?

On Thursday 12 August 2010 08:10:43 olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: However, I still refuse to run a graphics-centric environment, just to do my text-centric work on top of it. It makes no sense. I want a text-centric environment, with graphics capabilities as on optional addition; not the

news 2010-07: great work Thomas!

Hi Thomas, I just read the enhanced version of the news on the static site, and it’s wonderful! Many thanks for improving it and making it much more personal! - Arne PS: for microblogging: - dent: https://identi.ca/notice/45803005 - tweet: https://twitter.com/ArneBab/status/20887244862

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