Hurd Orientation

2001-06-04 Thread Neal H Walfield
Welcome to the Hurd === Welcome to the Hurd. This email is automatically sent at the begining of each month to the help-hurd@gnu.org and debian-hurd@lists.debian.org mailing lists. This message is intended for a quick

Project Suggestions

2001-06-04 Thread Thomas A Langan
I am a student planning on starting a masters thesis project in the near future and I'm looking for both some information and some advice. I will be installing the latest distribution tomorrow in order to start hacking and getting familiar with the system. If somebody could field some of these

Re: Project Suggestions

2001-06-04 Thread Jeff Bailey
It would be useful if you could provide more information about your capabilities and timeframe. What is your Masters project in? Do you have any systems design experience? The Hurd is noticably slower than other OSs. What type of hardware do you have (There is a particularily nasty bug we need

Partition size and glibc build

2001-06-04 Thread Jeff Bailey
It seems that a glibc package build is larger than 918 megs. =( Is there a firm way to figure out what the maximum size of a partition can be? My three swap partitions are right on the end of this partition, so I should be able to redo it a little bit larger. cfdisk reports my current

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2001-06-04 Thread Pierre