Sorry this mail should have be sent to the debian-hurd list, not only to the mailing list submitter.
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 01:03, Svante Signell wrote: > Hello, > > Excuse me for jumping in here. I'm one of the lurkers. I have been a > supporter of GNU for many years and have followed the GNU development > long before even Linux was born. I am still a fan of GNU idea an > appreciate very much the (L)GPL compared to other "free" licences. What > is sometimes very frustrating though is the stubbornness to add features > to a specific tool, e.g. Grub in this case. Another more famous example > is the CVS issue. If there had been some openness of the goals of CVS > tools like Bitkeeper would not even exist (Larry McVoy go disappear > somewhere). > > Other examples are Emacs vs Xemacs, gcc vs. egcs etc. I don't have a > proposal for a solution, maybe I'm just frustrated. On my to do list is > still to install Hurd on one of my computers to really get going with > the real GNU thing, not just Linux. BTW: Is it true that the L4 will be > distributed under a BSD licence, not (L)GPL? > > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 01:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > From: Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: 2003/09/30 Tue PM 06:53:11 EDT > > > To: Patrick Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > CC: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: live cd > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:21:36PM -0400, Patrick Ouellette wrote: > > > > I asked for CD boot support in GRUB about 2 years ago when I was > > > > with Progeny. I was told it would *never* happen. GRUB with > > > > CD boot support would be fantastic. > > > > > > GRUB 0.9x is semi-frozen in upstream. You'd be better of adding it to > > > PUPA, > > > the next generation of GNU GRUB: > > > > > > http://www.nongnu.org/pupa/ > > > > > > -- > > > Robert Millan > > > > > > "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in > > > the > > > thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he > > > gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new > > > work." > > > > > > -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion) > > > > > > > Marco and I will add it to PUPA!! :-) > > > > Barry deFreese > > HaXX0r wannabe > >
