Re: Considering Making A Financial Contribution to GNU Hurd

2020-12-18 Thread Marc Dunivan
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020, 00:15 Blair Vidakovich wrote: > Hey all, > > I have been meditating on the state of free software over the last week > in some intense and productive discussions with my Unix Users Group here > in Perth. I was dismayed to find out that the top three GNU/Linux > distributions

Re: Considering Making A Financial Contribution to GNU Hurd

2020-12-18 Thread Joshua Branson
I think it would also be a good idea to potentially encourage others to match your donation. Perhaps we could run a fundraiser, and we could advertise that you will match any donations up to $4,000. My two cents. -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.h

Re: Considering Making A Financial Contribution to GNU Hurd

2020-12-18 Thread Almudena Garcia
A possible way, which don't requires direct financial, It's join the Hurd to contribute platforms. Currently, Hurd participates in Google Summer of Code. But there are more platforms, like Outreachy or other similar, which allows to pay external contributors for makes a development in Free Software

Re: Please comment out constants in header files for features not being supported yet. And remove stubs??

2020-12-18 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2020-12-18 at 14:02 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le ven. 18 déc. 2020 13:22:12 +0100, a ecrit: > > > > It is a crash: Without gdb: > > host ftp.sunet.se > > ftp.sunet.se is an alias for sunet.ftp.acc.umu.se. > > sunet.ftp.acc.umu.se has address 194.71.11.173 > > sunet.ft

Re: Considering Making A Financial Contribution to GNU Hurd

2020-12-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le ven. 18 déc. 2020 12:18:55 +0100, a ecrit: > The question is rather whether we have anybody ready to be paid for > working on GNU/Hurd. Somebody could pop out and say "I'll work for > that", but he'd need a lot of mentoring before being able to contribute, > and that alone could

Re: Please comment out constants in header files for features not being supported yet. And remove stubs??

2020-12-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le ven. 18 déc. 2020 14:30:27 +0100, a ecrit: > On Fri, 2020-12-18 at 14:02 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Svante Signell, le ven. 18 déc. 2020 13:22:12 +0100, a ecrit: > > > > > > It is a crash: Without gdb: > > > host ftp.sunet.se > > > ftp.sunet.se is an alias for sunet.ftp.a

Re: Please comment out constants in header files for features not being supported yet. And remove stubs??

2020-12-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le ven. 18 déc. 2020 13:22:12 +0100, a ecrit: > On Fri, 2020-12-18 at 12:12 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Svante Signell, le ven. 18 déc. 2020 11:58:53 +0100, a ecrit: > > > On Thu, 2020-12-17 at 17:11 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > > BTW: Any ideas about the second cras

Re: Considering Making A Financial Contribution to GNU Hurd

2020-12-18 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
Blair Vidakovich writes: > I have been donating money to various different free software projects > over the last few weeks, like putting a bounty on implementing OMEMO > encryption for XMPP in EMACS, and contributing to the patreon of Mezzano > OS, a LISP operating system project. Thank you for

Re: Please comment out constants in header files for features not being supported yet. And remove stubs??

2020-12-18 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2020-12-18 at 12:12 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le ven. 18 déc. 2020 11:58:53 +0100, a ecrit: > > On Thu, 2020-12-17 at 17:11 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > BTW: Any ideas about the second crash written about in my previous > > mail that you edited away? > > What

Re: Considering Making A Financial Contribution to GNU Hurd

2020-12-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Blair Vidakovich, le ven. 18 déc. 2020 13:08:23 +0800, a ecrit: > I was dismayed to find out that the top three GNU/Linux distributions > were Ubuntu, Fedora, and Mint, It depends who you ask. If you look at https://distrowatch.com/ you'll get another answer. If you ask people, they'd tell you tha

Re: Please comment out constants in header files for features not being supported yet. And remove stubs??

2020-12-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le ven. 18 déc. 2020 11:58:53 +0100, a ecrit: > On Thu, 2020-12-17 at 17:11 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Svante Signell, le jeu. 17 déc. 2020 15:54:28 +0100, a ecrit: > > > # define CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE 5 > > > > > > The problem with that option is that it is not yet

Re: Please comment out constants in header files for features not being supported yet. And remove stubs??

2020-12-18 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2020-12-17 at 17:11 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le jeu. 17 déc. 2020 15:54:28 +0100, a ecrit: > > # define CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE 5 > > > > The problem with that option is that it is not yet supported, > > resulting in EINVAL and a crash message on the console:

Considering Making A Financial Contribution to GNU Hurd

2020-12-18 Thread Blair Vidakovich
Hey all, I have been meditating on the state of free software over the last week in some intense and productive discussions with my Unix Users Group here in Perth. I was dismayed to find out that the top three GNU/Linux distributions were Ubuntu, Fedora, and Mint, this morning. I thought at least