Re: Developer Accessible Hurd Machine

2003-06-25 Thread Robert Millan
o help but probably someone else has better resources (eg, bandwidth, or even physical space) than me. On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 01:27:41PM +0200, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: > Greetings, > > Some time ago, Martin Schulze pointed out that there is no developer > accessible Hurd machine availab

Re: Developer Accessible Hurd Machine

2003-06-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:46:24PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: > If there is no permanent buildd running, I think most developers will > not be able to identify hurd specific problems, even if they were very > minor. Well, there is a buildd, it's just not running at the moment (and it dies frequently

Re: Developer Accessible Hurd Machine

2003-06-25 Thread Mario Lang
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyway, you can still try to install the Hurd yourself on a free > partition, for example using the crosshurd package. Most people have an > i386, so it's just a matter of perhaps freeing some disk-space and > reading the docs. If it doesn't work with yo

Re: Developer Accessible Hurd Machine

2003-06-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:30:26PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: > I think such a machine would be valuable to increase the quality > of the Hurd port overall. Maybe. But also keep in mind that porting to GNU/Hurd is a bit more complicated than porting to just another Linux architecture, because of s

Re: Developer Accessible Hurd Machine

2003-06-24 Thread Mario Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Benj. Mako Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some time ago, Martin Schulze pointed out that there is no developer > accessible Hurd machine available. > > I am happy to coordinate the donation of hardware for this if

Developer Accessible Hurd Machine

2003-06-21 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
Greetings, Some time ago, Martin Schulze pointed out that there is no developer accessible Hurd machine available. I am happy to coordinate the donation of hardware for this if it is this something that you (developers, Hurd and otherwise) feel would be useful and possible? However, I've