Re: any interest in kORbit?

On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Christopher Browne wrote: > On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 17:41:28 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as > "Kleinmann, Peter G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-12-09-013-20-NW-GN-KN > > > > this article in LinuxToday is about a corba inter

Re: any interest in kORbit?

On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 17:41:28 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as "Kleinmann, Peter G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-12-09-013-20-NW-GN-KN > > this article in LinuxToday is about a corba interface built into the > kernel, allowing user-space servers

Re: Plex86 boots GRUB

> There might be some issues with the FPU code. As I understand it, as long > as the host CPU supports FPU instructions there shouldn't be a problem. > Maybe it can even be disabled. That can make it easier for me to work > on gnumach's FPU emulation (yes, I still want to make it work right :-). >

Re: Plex86 boots GRUB

On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 02:54:36AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Hi, > > plex86 CVS version boots GRUB. This means that you can try to boot gnumach > and eventually the Hurd in plex86. With increasing performance of plex86, > this might be a good alternative to dual boot under some circumstance

Plex86 boots GRUB

Hi, plex86 CVS version boots GRUB. This means that you can try to boot gnumach and eventually the Hurd in plex86. With increasing performance of plex86, this might be a good alternative to dual boot under some circumstances. Especially in favor of certain non-free products. You can get plex86 fro

any interest in kORbit?

Hi Folks, http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-12-09-013-20-NW-GN-KN this article in LinuxToday is about a corba interface built into the kernel, allowing user-space servers to handle system calls, etc. I don't know how many services are already offered by the HURD, but kORbit so

Re: FreeDevelopers.net needs your help!

On Sunday 10 December 2000 14:31, Daniel E Baumann wrote: > Hello all. As some of you may have seen on GNU project home page there is > another project that the FSF has given it's seal of approval to and it's > FreeDevelopers.net (http://www.freedevelopers.net). Here is a little bit > about what we

Re: Pengiun and Daemon

Neal H Walfield writes: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 05:19:45AM -0500, Andy wrote: > > Didn't there used to be some bull or buffallo looking thing with a ring > > through > > its nose? > > You mean a gnu? `gnu': A species of antelope, also known as a wildebeest. Webster's 1913 says that the brind

FreeDevelopers.net needs your help!

Hello all. As some of you may have seen on GNU project home page there is another project that the FSF has given it's seal of approval to and it's FreeDevelopers.net (http://www.freedevelopers.net). Here is a little bit about what we are trying to do: FreeDevelopers is a democratic entity for t

xfce desktop, xforms library

Hi there, I had some trouble running the xfce desktop version 2.4. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd-0012/msg00076.html. This version is based on the xforms library which currently is not open source. The author of the library, Mr. Zhao, gave me the source to compile and test it. I tested

Re: Pengiun and Daemon

On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 05:19:45AM -0500, Andy wrote: > Didn't there used to be some bull or buffallo looking thing with a ring > through > its nose? You mean a gnu? -- Neal H Walfield University of Massachusetts at Lowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pengiun and Daemon

Didn't there used to be some bull or buffallo looking thing with a ring through its nose? Christopher Browne wrote: > On Sat, 09 Dec 2000 17:00:47 -0900, the world broke into rejoicing as > "Dayyan Lord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Linux is the penguin. BSD the daemon. What is the Hurd? > >

Re: Mach, a but choise ?

> Lites seems to have morphed into xMach... > > I would think there to be considerable merit in there being some > convergence between Hurd and xMach on the microkernel side; if that > resulted in coexisting "personalities" that would be intereesting > indeed. I recently chatt

Re: problems mounting my hurd partition

On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 08:41:20AM -0800, Nick Jennings wrote: > >So, my question is, will it work (installing GRUB in the MBR and using it >to boot Linux AND Hurd). GRUB has improved vastly in the last two years and you should not have problems. Just run the "setup (hd0)" command (of co

Re: Pengiun and Daemon

On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Dayyan Lord wrote: > Linux is the penguin. BSD the daemon. What is the Hurd? > I think it is maybe a white stick as in "hurd but not scene" -- Best Wishes David Ama Sua, Ama Qhella, Ama Lllulla (ICQ:40119763/misitu)

Re: Mach, a but choise ?

On Sat, 09 Dec 2000 22:40:01 +0100, the world broke into rejoicing as Farid Hajji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > First of all, thank you for helping this newbie, your explanation have been > > very clear to me, there are still two questions I would like to ask about > > what you say of Mach offerin

Re: porting to other architectures (68k no mmu family)

On Sat, 09 Dec 2000 22:40:36 +0100, the world broke into rejoicing as Farid Hajji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Pardon the inane question, but how possible would it > > be to port Hurd to processors like > > 68328/68EZ328/etc... (yes, palm pilots...) ? > > > > One would start with the mach microk