Re: glibc 2.1.3 packages

2000-03-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 06:21:40PM +, Chris Lingard wrote: > > Home made, started life as a 486 25Mhz 2Mb; and some parts are still > original > > Bought a second hand mother board from a game player who wanted a faster > machine; > mother board runs at 66Mhz with K6 clocked at 230 Mhz.

Re: further (incomplete) X patches

2000-03-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 11:30:30AM -0700, Jim Franklin wrote: > Hi Marcus, > I just heard a couple of days ago that XFree86 4.0 is out. I know you > were putting together some X patches and didn't know if this might be > value to you. I am not sure. My main goal is to get some X packages into t

Re: glibc 2.1.3 packages

2000-03-12 Thread Chris Lingard
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 12:45:25PM +, Chris Lingard wrote: > > > > > > Note that a full glibc build needs 640MB disk space and might crash a few > > > times > > > on the Hurd. > > > > > > > You forget to mention that it takes over 16 hours! Only got one crash when

Re: further (incomplete) X patches

2000-03-12 Thread Jim Franklin
Hi Marcus, I just heard a couple of days ago that XFree86 4.0 is out. I know you were putting together some X patches and didn't know if this might be value to you. http://www.xfree86.org/#news Jim Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Hi, > > here are further patches for X. I grep'd for linux and ch

Re: Package questions

2000-03-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 02:21:26AM -0800, Gregory Ade wrote: > I take it that these niceties have to be > downloaded from the debian package ftp sites? Yes. > is there a list that someone may have put together of what needs to be > installed yet to actually do something usefull with a Hurd

Re: glibc 2.1.3 packages

2000-03-12 Thread Chris Lingard
> > > Details would have been useful. I think this is not a special Hurd issue, > but anyway. I believe gconv-modules is obsolete and included in libc0.2. > I was not running screen at the time, and it will nor repeat the message again but it was lots of complaints about the shared libraries in /

Re: pthreads

2000-03-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 12:53:13AM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: > Hi all, > > I am working on a pthread implementation to run under gnu mach for my > OS project this semester; expect to see some bits in the next month or > so. I hope you contacted Mark Kettenis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> before startin

Re: Three silly questions to the Hurd-Core

2000-03-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 09:39:17PM -0500, Lucas C. Wagner wrote: > > > > This is very wrong, please don't make such errornous statements in the > > public. It only alienates people. > > > > Well, aside from the political correctness, I would say many people view it > as a replacement for the Linux

Package questions

2000-03-12 Thread Gregory Ade
Well, after a few months of lurking on the various hurd mailling lists, I finally got up the gumption to actually install the Hurd. I hedged my bets, and managed to get it running in a VMware sandbox, which is likely where it will stay, until such time as I have a free machine (or get that 486 run

Splitting up pfinet [Was: Re: i want to help ! how ?]

2000-03-12 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 11:01:16AM +0100, Niels Möller wrote: > Igor Khavkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, that's what I was asking about. Maybe a better idea would be to make > > pfinet support a general tunneling interface that gives control of the > > underlying protocol to a users

pthreads

2000-03-12 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi all, I am working on a pthread implementation to run under gnu mach for my OS project this semester; expect to see some bits in the next month or so. Here is the problem that I have run into so far: Background: As a minimal implementation, I have a basic pthread_t, pthread_attr_t and pthread

Re: Three silly questions to the Hurd-Core

2000-03-12 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000 21:39:17 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as "Lucas C. Wagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > This is very wrong, please don't make such errornous statements in the > > public. It only alienates people. > > Well, aside from the political correctness, I would say many people

RE: Three silly questions to the Hurd-Core

2000-03-12 Thread Lucas C. Wagner
> > This is very wrong, please don't make such errornous statements in the > public. It only alienates people. > Well, aside from the political correctness, I would say many people view it as a replacement for the Linux kernel even if those are not the words that you would choose to say them in.