Greetings.

2004-04-06 Thread Patrick.
and immense benefit. I duly apologize for infringing on your privacy, if this contact is not acceptable to you, for I make this proposal to you as a person of integrity. First and foremost I wish to introduce myself properly to you. I am Mr Patrick F.Massaquoi the son of late formal Liberia sport

Re: Port to PowerPC

2001-01-27 Thread Patrick Strasser
nt a Darwin partition (code a8, UFS is at the a* range of partition type signatures)? I don't expect it to be a big challenge to get Darwin ufs working in Hurd and vice versa. Now my question: Do all binaries, kernel and severs, have to be the same format (ELF, a.out, Mach-O). Is

Re: Port to PowerPC

2001-01-29 Thread Patrick Strasser
Mark Kettenis wrote: > >Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:36:33 +0100 > From: Patrick Strasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Sender: "Patrick Strasser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Accept-Language: de-AT,de >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Call for Projects

2001-07-12 Thread Patrick Strasser
What would you suggest, Neal, would a link to this list be ok? I hope to get a lot of responses ;-) Patrick o ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

OS personalities for Linux

2001-11-07 Thread Patrick Strasser
some thoughts and links about virtual servers/OS personalities. I'm not cappable of doing any valuable work, I'm just learning software development at hte moment. I hope do be able to do some work on the Hurd soon. Hopefully this mail gives some new useful aspects for further development o

Re: realtek 8029

2001-12-30 Thread Patrick Strasser
aded modules. Please give exact information about your (if working) Linux config. I don't know if ISA NE2000 wurks with the Hurd. Perhaps someone can give more exact information about NE2000 drivers status. For my understanding, the NE2000 is verry common, so there should be quite some practica

Re: realtek 8029

2002-01-03 Thread Patrick Strasser
James Morrison wrote: > > --- Patrick Strasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That HCL is old. The new HCL is at > http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/thug/gnumach_hardware.html . > I found the old link at hurd.gnu.org. This needs to be changed. I'm willing to do this

Re: realtek 8029

2002-01-03 Thread Patrick Strasser
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:48:35PM +0100, Patrick Strasser wrote: > > James Morrison wrote: > > > > > > --- Patrick Strasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That HCL is old. The new HCL is at > > > http

Re: [GNU Mach] [patch] ImPS/2 support

2002-05-20 Thread Patrick Strasser
is 'Go"el', as this is quite understandable AFAIHS, or you write it in English text without any special sign. People not knowing special language features will have to ask anyway how to pronounce it, the others know "what to do". I hope this can help you to determine wich

Re: Hurd Sourcecode Cross Reference [was:Re: Hurd advocacy?]

2003-08-23 Thread Patrick Strasser
. GLOBAL supports emacs, vi and others. Have a look at http://www.gnu.org/software/global/ Patrick -- Engineers motto: cheap, good, fast: choose any two Patrick Strasser Student of Telematik, Techn. University Graz, Austria ___ Bug-hurd mailing list

Hurd Sourcecode Cross Reference [was:Re: Hurd advocacy?]

2003-08-21 Thread Patrick Strasser
D is GNUmach 2.0, IIRC) libc mig (for completeness) Libc is quite big, and you should remember that it's the complete Glibc! It took quite a while to build with GLOBAL. Note: DON'T MIRROR! It's somewhat smaller than 1 GB! Have fun! Patrick -- Engineers motto: cheap, good, fast:

Re: GNU Mach 1.3 and gcc 3.3.x

2004-01-14 Thread Patrick Strasser
ork on the port and others will work on the maintainance. Patrick -- Engineers motto: | Patrick Strasser [ ] cheap | [ ] good | [ ] fast | Student of Telematik -> choose any two | Techn. University Graz, Austria ___ Bug

Hurd Sourcecode Cross Reference online again

2004-04-20 Thread Patrick Strasser
libc Each is HEAD from CVS. Last update was 2004-01-22. Which Gnumach is now HEAD? traditional or OSKit? Would OSKit be helpful? Which version, where to get one? Moreover: What about Hurd/L4? Should it be included? Patrick -- Engineers motto: | Patrick Strasser [ ] cheap | [ ]

Re: Hurd Sourcecode Cross Reference online again

2004-04-20 Thread Patrick Strasser
Marco Gerards wrote: Patrick Strasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The HSCR is oline again after some trouble with the server. Search is not available, but is worked on. I'm sorry to say, but things are not good as they seemed before: To save space I let GLOBAL gzip all pages, sa

Re: X and other visions

2004-06-14 Thread Patrick Strasser
permissions in his head. Computers can do that much better. Windows XP has somthing called "effective rights". Very usefull. Such a tool should take a situation (activity + user + rule set) and tell you what is possible. Patrick -- Engineers motto: | Patrick Strasser [ ] cheap | [

Re: I think I want to help

2004-08-09 Thread Patrick Strasser
for a release before L4/Hurd? Patrick ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: console translator set without encoding

2004-09-07 Thread Patrick Strasser
CC-ing bug-hurd Ognyan Kulev wrote: Patrick Strasser wrote: Unicode did not work until i set it to /hurd/console --encoding=UTF-8 via settrans /dev/vcs /hurd/console --encoding=UTF-8 I think this should be the default. The change will be in MAKEDEV. Will you submit bug for the hurd package

Re: A Hurd release

2005-01-07 Thread Patrick Strasser
some polishing would be fine. Otherwise the only thing that is needed is to declare the current CVS snapshot as Official Develpment Release 0.3. People are waiting for a release, and things improved. Some showstoppers are now fixed. I think it's time for 0.3. Patric

Re: A Hurd release

2005-01-09 Thread Patrick Strasser
e polishing would be fine. Otherwise the only thing that is needed is to declare the current CVS snapshot as Official Develpment Release 0.3. People are waiting for a release, and things improved. Some showstoppers are now fixed. I think it's time for 0.3. Patric

Re: Screensaver support for the Hurd console

2005-01-09 Thread Patrick Strasser
lue conig file for the normal user. Everyone who wants to do fancy things and code his own emacs ontop fo console can do this in the guile config file. Patrick -- I'm tired of writing smart signatures ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: hangs with (hd0,2)/hurd/ext2fs.static

2005-02-07 Thread Patrick Strasser
on ide channel 1 (some /dev/hda in Linux)? Once more: Better use the GRUB Image from http://www.copyleft.co.nz/links.html Write it on a floppy and edit the menu.lst to match your setup. Patrick ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: Tasks list for GNU Mach

2005-12-21 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
Hello list, please excuse my ignorance, but what's the Status of GNU Mach? I heard the L4 microkernel is favored for the Hurd. Do you guys try to catch up? Kind regards, Leslie -- PGP-KID: 0x52D70289 pgpa1pTuqUMtq.pgp Description: PGP signature _

GNU From Scratch

2005-12-26 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
Dear list, I think a "GNU From Scratch" project, where a detailed cross-compile process for kernel and system is presented, could attract a lot more developers to the GNU operating system and Hurd. Many people, like me, do not like Debian, and a lot like to roll their own system to get to know it

Re: GNU From Scratch

2005-12-26 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:22:00 +0100 Alfred M\. Szmidt <"Alfred M\. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: | No, it is a waste of time. More often than not you learn nothing, | since you are simply following steps that someone else has written for | you. Following instructions blindly is not learn