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

2024-05-31 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
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

2024-01-20 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
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.

2024-01-09 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
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.

2024-01-06 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
"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!

2023-08-30 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
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

2023-01-24 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
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!

2022-08-15 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
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

2021-12-29 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
"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

2021-12-29 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
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!

2021-08-14 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
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

2021-08-14 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
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

2021-08-13 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
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

2020-12-18 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
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

2020-09-16 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
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

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