Re: Debian's menu package, does it work?

2002-09-17 Thread Fabian Sturm
Hello > can anybody find out what the status of update-menu in Debian's menu package > is, possibly debug the problem and follow up on bug report #72175? I think this sounds like what I reported once, see thread http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2001/debian-hurd-200107/msg00126.html and my b

Re: Is Hurd good?

2002-07-24 Thread Fabian Sturm
Hello, from my limited understanding of kernels I would think its like this. The fastest operating system on earth would be one which never checks any parameters and would only have one user which can do anything (this saves doing privlege checks). (Hmm isnt this a description for windows95, exc

Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd

2002-05-25 Thread Fabian Sturm
Hello! On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 03:58:26PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, 25 May 2002, Fabian Sturm wrote: > > > > I really get mad when I hear that the sysadmin owns the machine and pays > > for its used resources. Whenever I worked somewhere and I had a sysadmin &g

Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd

2002-05-25 Thread Fabian Sturm
Hello, sorry that I'm now also writing one more useless mail but I had to reply to this comment below. On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 05:32:10PM +0200, Tobin Fricke wrote: > > > I think your idea that a GNU System shouldn't allow the sysadmin to limit > the freedoms of the users is pretty ridiculous.

package menu possible fix

2001-07-13 Thread Fabian Sturm
Hello! Some days ago i wrote that he package menu does not create the menu structures for e.g. twm. Now i found out why. The version of menu i used is: menu-2.1.5 In update-menus.cc is at line 607 the following code: close(fds[1]); close(0); dup(fds[0]); //??? // The next 2 lines seem s

twm and xfree 4.1.0

2001-07-05 Thread Fabian Sturm
Hello as i posted in an earlier version i tested the xfree 4.1.0 packages markus supplied. And i had the error that twm had no menu. Now i got the big tar ball xfree86_4.1.0.orig.tar.gz (51MB) But i dont know how to unpack it and start the build of the xfree packages. If i do a dpkg-source -x x

Re: xfree86-4.1.0-0pre1v2 test packages for hurd-i386 uploaded

2001-07-01 Thread Fabian Sturm
Hello again! On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 05:34:42PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 04:14:30PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > > > The Hurd box in this house has this problem (^c not working) with the > > console; OTOH the keyboard isn't correctly configured (I think this is

Re: xfree86-4.1.0-0pre1v2 test packages for hurd-i386 uploaded

2001-07-01 Thread Fabian Sturm
Hello! On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 03:51:33PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > Is this problem happening under Linux as well, given the same X server > configuration and version? I would like to know if this is a X server > hardware problem independant of the OS or a problem specific to the

Re: xfree86-4.1.0-0pre1v2 test packages for hurd-i386 uploaded

2001-07-01 Thread Fabian Sturm
Hi! On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 09:33:34PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > I uploaded to http://people.debian.org/~brinkmd/xfree86-4.1.0-0pre1v2/ : > I tried to install the packges from this location and had following results: I used dpkg -i to install them because i couldt figure out how i can

Re: ae and exim

2001-04-24 Thread Fabian Sturm
Hello! On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:54:12PM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: > > I think I just figured out what the 'ae' problem is (I've been working > on this more than I've been working on the exim problem. I suspect [...] > > The package slang1-dev contains /lib/libslang.so, so the linker uses > t

ae and libslang

2001-04-22 Thread Fabian Sturm
Hello i have a question about the edior ae. I just install hurd with cross-install which worked fine. But i couldn't use the editor ae under hurd because it couldn't find the libslang.so Shouldn't ae be linked to lislang.so.1 ?? Now i created a symlink from libslang.so to libslang.so.1 which fi

Re: hurd progress and bugs

2000-07-26 Thread Fabian Sturm
Hallo! On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 04:27:42PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe L4 from the GMD or its free variant Fiasco, see > http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/fiasco/. The people from fiasco say in their faq: Do you plan to port the GNU Hurd to the Fiasco ยต-kernel? This indeed sounds like