Hello, On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 07:54:25PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Sonntag, 6. September 2009 10:33:23 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: > > > Some info might be here: > > > - http://projectxoo.blogspot.com/ > > > > I guess porting the Hurd to Viengoos is still a matter which is more > > discussed about than really attended to :-( > > I hope it will become more real in the not too far future. But up to then, > it's not perfect, but already usable with Mach (and it offers some very nice > features like nsmux and unionfs :) ).
That's true :-) Still, I'd very much like to have the time and the knowledge to engage myself in porting the Hurd to the new microkernel sometimes. > > > > I'll read these links today. Sorry for not having read them so far -- > > > > it's lack of time, as usual :-( > > > > > > No problem. I know that problem far too well myself... > > > > I've read the story :-) Your power of allegory fascinates me :-) > > I'm glad you like it! > > I wrote it a few years ago, when I was mostly fresh to free software and had > just taken several deep dives into the story of what happened at MIT. Then I > read Otherland and doing a story in slightly australian myth style just > grabbed me :) > > And it's also quite fascinating for me to see how easily parts of > the history of free software fit mythologic storytelling. A story > from the dreamlands seeps into our reality and makes us travel the > land with the firefox, talk to friends via the thunderbird and meet > many more mythological beasts (though I use KDE and only turn to > firefox when I can't konquer a website :) ). Yes, you are absolutely right: the names met among instances of free software are truly amazing :-) This makes the life of a free software programmer a virtually infinite exploration of a wonderland ;-) Regards, scolobb
