Re: Building linux gcc tarball for Hurd H4

2002-08-11 Thread Niklas Höglund
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 03:29:21AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 07:02:29AM -, James Joseph wrote: > > 3) Are the modifications to make gnu packages work for Hurd, in > > the SAME package as the ones used for building a GNU / Linux > > system, or do i need to downlo

Re: Which packages should I use?

2002-07-25 Thread Niklas Höglund
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 02:05:55PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 10:33:32AM -0700, Jason Dagit wrote: > > My long running theory about this is that people crave a shorter > > colloquial(sp?) term for talking about both linux and hurd. If I were > > talking about them in the off

Re: compiling random - was: ssh on hurd

2002-07-17 Thread Niklas Höglund
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 07:34:49PM +0200, Jaap Karssenberg wrote: > > Anyway I temporarily fixed a random be adjusting the "one" translator from > the hurd hacking guide (don't say I don't read any manuals) to return > random. Probably this random function won't be random enough to ensure > sec

OT: Naming

2002-05-21 Thread Niklas Höglund
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) wrote: > Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > First you say that we should say "GNU/Linux" instead of "Linux", > > That's because the "user-space" functionality is that of GNU (ok, that > can be debated elsewhere, but that's the motivation for the > "

Re: Hurd T-Shirts - anyone?

2002-03-31 Thread Niklas Höglund
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 04:39:48PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 03:18:12PM +0100, Niklas H?glund wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 01:26:28PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > The Hurd isn't an OS. GNU is the OS, the Hurd is the core of that OS. > > > > I'd say Mach is

Re: Hurd T-Shirts - anyone?

2002-03-30 Thread Niklas Höglund
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 01:26:28PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > The Hurd isn't an OS. GNU is the OS, the Hurd is the core of that OS. I'd say Mach is the core, and the Hurd a layer on top of that. Maybe we should say "Mach, the next generation" :) --

Re: Hurd Orientation

2001-11-14 Thread Niklas Höglund
On 14 Nov 2001 12:57:07 + Bob Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2001-11-04 at 04:28, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > > Mailing Lists: > > > > Subscribe in the usual fashion. > > What is the "usual" fashion? Sending a mail to xxx-request with subscribe in both the subject and the body usual

Re: [Hurd-alpha-devel] Re: L4 instead of gnumach?

2000-10-30 Thread Niklas Höglund
On 30 Oct 2000, Niels Möller wrote: > Erik Verbruggen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What about security? I don't know L4 much (although a read some paper > on it a long time ago, the last time Hurd on L4 was discussed). My > impression was that L4 was a lot different from Mach. As the HURD > re

Re: L4 instead of gnumach?

2000-10-28 Thread Niklas Höglund
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:38:17PM -0400, Igor Khavkine wrote: > I agree, if Mach is taken out of the picture there is no reason to stick with > Mach legacy like cthreads and even MIG. MIG is not a very good IDL language > it's highly Mach specific (duh Mach Interface Generator) and only supports

Re: kmsg --- get the boot messages

2000-09-25 Thread Niklas Höglund
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: > > We also need to decide on the external kbd interface and make > > it official (somewhere in or so). Several programs > > are shipping their own version already. > > IMO, /dev/kdb should disappear. Having two devices to read a > keyboard is nonsens

Re: root-device

2000-09-12 Thread Niklas Höglund
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > What is the effect of this -s? I forgot to pass it, but everything seem to > > work fine anyway. > > -s boots to single user mode so that you can run native-install. But I ran native-install. (I must have, the system works.) --

Re: root-device

2000-09-12 Thread Niklas Höglund
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Neal H Walfield wrote: > If this is your first boot, why are you not passing -s? (Not that that > would solve this problem) What is the effect of this -s? I forgot to pass it, but everything seem to work fine anyway. -- Nikla

Re: /home/user/var ?

2000-05-18 Thread Niklas Höglund
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:05:10AM -0400, Cowboy wrote: > >> On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 08:23:43PM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > > Every time some new marvelous "feature" is added to Linux ( meaning IN > the kernel ) it's necessary to up-grade the whole bloody system to make > anything work,