Hurd sources distribution

2000-05-02 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
a) Are Hurd sources diffs available somewhere ? b) Why Hurd sources hasn't been splited ? b1) Linux compiles in half an hour on my machine (under Linux), and Hurd hasn't finished in 10 hours (under Hurd). I suppose Hurd is *much* more memory-consuming (it's 16MB RAM system), or I'm doing something

Re: Easy Guide Mass Update!

2000-05-02 Thread Adam Sampson
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 02:35:11PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > a)Why don't gnu.org use ssh? it's much easier for the users Last time I tried the client, it went something like this (reconstructed from memory): bash$ ssh somehost To whoever installed ssh on the GNU machines: ssh is NOT free so

Re: Why not SSH? [was: Easy Guide Mass Update!]

2000-05-02 Thread Ian Main
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 11:08:52AM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > > Matthew Vernon writes: > > MV> a)Why don't gnu.org use ssh? it's much easier for the users > > All SSH protocol version 1 implementations (including OpenSSH) use > RSA, which is patented in the US. The only way to get ar

Why not SSH? [was: Easy Guide Mass Update!]

2000-05-02 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
> Matthew Vernon writes: MV> a)Why don't gnu.org use ssh? it's much easier for the users All SSH protocol version 1 implementations (including OpenSSH) use RSA, which is patented in the US. The only way to get around the patent issues is to use RSAREF, which is non-free. And so, US citizen

LSH (was Re: Easy Guide Mass Update!)

2000-05-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) writes: > However, version 2 of the SSH protocol doesn't use RSA, and there is > at least one free implementation, namely LSH. Moreover, one month ago Is anyone working on a .deb yet, do you know? Matthew -- "At least you know where you are with Microsoft." "Tr

Re: Easy Guide Mass Update!

2000-05-02 Thread Niels Möller
Matthew Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A few quickies though: > > a)Why don't gnu.org use ssh? it's much easier for the users Because the vanilla ssh is not free software, and it also uses the RSA algorithm which is patented in the US. However, version 2 of the SSH protocol doesn't use RS

Re: Easy Guide Mass Update!

2000-05-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, 02 May 2000 15:35:11 Matthew Vernon wrote: > b)Marcus - can you refer to me as matthew vernon on the debian.org > page, rather than m.c. vernon? ta Yep, will do. > c)Marcus - I still can't get at your autobuilder's page :( It was okay for few hours, until I turned it down again... sorry

Easy Guide Mass Update!

2000-05-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi all, Since I've got exams RSN, I thought I'd get by butt into gear and update both versions of the easy guide: a) after much Kerberos faffery, the gnu.org version matches the pick.ucam.org version again b) I've brought the Easy Guide bang up-to-date - any corrections to me, as ever, please

Re: autobuilder web pages with (failed) build logs

2000-05-02 Thread John Tobey
Marcus wrote: > you can find the autobuilder status and the build logs at > > http://fwi-hurd.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de Excellent work, Marcus. Congratulations and THANK YOU! Take a look everybody, Marcus has spent the past 7 months rewriting the Debian build daemon from scratch so that it works wi

fwi-hurd.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de back

2000-05-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, As the subject says, fwi-hurd.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de is back online. Thanks, Marcus

Re: First European Debian Meeting

2000-05-02 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi All, Speaking of meetings, I am planning on attending the Libre Software Meeting in Bordeaux; This was announced last week on debian-devel and a few other lists, it is attached here is you have not heard about it. I am curious who else if going to be present and if they might be interested in

Hurd conference in Paris

2000-05-02 Thread diablero
Hi, I'm a student in a french computer science school. With all of the members of the school Lug, we want to organize a Debian GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd conference. We are in touch with Debian members for Debian speeches. We are looking for Hurd developers to talk about Hurd. If they can speak french, it