On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Marek Dopiera < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Saturday 08 of November 2008 07:28:17 Sergiu Ivanov napisał(a): > > Please pardon me my question: why won't you contribute to Hurd > > directly now? Especially that you have some experience with it ;-) I'm > > just curious, please don't think I meant something offensive with the > > inquiry. > > > Hi, unfortunately, the answer is very simple: I simply don't have time > right > now. Right now I'm becoming a part of NetBSD and there are several things > I > want to do there. I began the work at my studies, then as GSoC and I want > to > finish it. > Ah, I see... > It might be interesting to you, that it's a trial to introduce the > translators > concept to NetBSD and the final goal is to provide binary compatibility > with > GNUMach to be able to use the Hurd on top of the NetBSD kernel. > In case you want to ask the question "Why on a monolithic kernel?", the > answer > is that translators seem a cool thing even there. > > Some things already work (but they're not yet integrated and stable), you > can > check the status on: > http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.nAh, I see. > et/projects/hurdt/ <http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/hurdt/> > Thank you for the information :-) I heard something about this, but I never read anything on this matter. I wonder whether Hurd community should feel happy about translators on NetBSD or not... > Anyway, I use gentoo right now and I am planning to switch to NetBSD > kernel. I > don't have the time right now for any contribution for Gentoo on the Hurd > but > if it appears I will certainly try it and then would hope to get involved. This sounds cool :-) The Hurd community will welcome any contribution of yours, as far as I can tell :-) Regards, scolobb
