Re: Full-time developer available

2015-09-15 Thread Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
Hello Robert! Em Tue, 15 Sep 2015 22:11:15 +0200 Robert Millan escreveu: > I think it's mostly Zheng Da's merit. Thank you Zheng Da! :-) > That said I think Rump opens up a lot of interesting possibilities. > I'm glad to see interest in that. Which particular area do you have > in mind? I'm

Re: Full-time developer available

2015-09-15 Thread Robert Millan
Hi Bruno, El 14/09/15 a les 00:32, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro ha escrit: I'm interested in improving Hurd's hardware support, probably working on the development of user-space device drivers[0], most likely the rump kernel integration. I see that Robert Millan has made some remarkable progres

(Newbie question) Failed building hurd on Debian GNU Hurd

2015-09-15 Thread Braione Pietro
Hello to everyone. As from the title, I am a complete newbie. It is the first time I am trying to build hurd from sources (but I have successfully built gnumach and mig many times). My platform is Debian GNU Hurd (should be the 2013 version). I followed the INSTALL file in the hurd source tree a

Re: (Newbie question) Failed building hurd on Debian GNU Hurd

2015-09-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Braione Pietro, le Tue 15 Sep 2015 12:31:16 +, a écrit : > ../libports/libports.so: undefined reference to > `mach_port_set_protected_payload’ > ../libports/libports.so: undefined reference to > `mach_port_clear_protected_payload’ These are new features which were added to GNU Mach a

Full-time developer available

2015-09-15 Thread Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
Hello, GNU Hurd hackers! I'm available to work on free software things of my choice full time for at least the next six months. Besides helping the GNU project and the FSF with some infrastructural work and campaigns, I've decided to use all my remaining time to hack on the GNU Hurd. I'm a begin