Re: GNU/Hurd on AMD64

2006-04-28 Thread Balaji Kutty
Hi all,I'm a newbie to Hurd. I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop with Intel centrino processor. I downloaded GNU/Hurd and configured my Grub. But, it doesn't boot. If I select this boot option it keeps rebooting. Has anyone successfully booted Hurd in Toshiba satellite laptop?Thanks-balajiOn 4/27/06,

Re: _POSIX_THREADS in

2006-04-28 Thread Barry deFreese
- Original Message - From: "Roland McGrath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Barry deFreese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 8:34 PM Subject: Re: _POSIX_THREADS in > I won't define it until we have a real libpthread implementation that > interacts correctly with libc a

Re: _POSIX_THREADS in

2006-04-28 Thread Roland McGrath
> > I won't define it until we have a real libpthread implementation that > > interacts correctly with libc and has all the right hairy semantics. > > An extra libpthread that is not integrated with libc will never be a true > > POSIX implementation. > > This is going to be a dumb question, but wh

on Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-28 Thread Constantine Kousoulos
Greetings everybody, I am a complete newbie to the hurd project. I only recently installed hurd after a lot of troubleshooting. I am also a postgraduate student of computer science with a very gnu-ish philosophy. I 'm thinking of applying for Google's summer of code. Is there a problem i don

Re: IRC channel (was: Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006)

2006-04-28 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 11:47:16PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:29:16PM -0400, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > [...] > > please feel invited to contact us on the bug-hurd mailing list or > > the #hurd IRC channel. > > ...on freenode.net. Why are people always fo