Re: Hurd user survey results

2000-03-15 Thread Mariusz Woloszyn
On 14 Mar 2000, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > 1 wants Linux binary compatibility > Is there any in plans??? -- Mariusz Wołoszyn Internet Security Specialist, Internet Partners, GTS Poland

Re: Hurd user survey results

2000-03-14 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 08:47:42PM +, Nic Ferrier wrote: > >14 (25%) and some of 7 (12%) could be solved by porting libggi to > gnumach/hurd, > >what shoudn't be so hard. > >This is the biggest single solution. > > Would this make X displaying on the HURD a possibility? Yes > I guess it wou

Re: Hurd user survey results

2000-03-14 Thread Nic Ferrier
>14 (25%) and some of 7 (12%) could be solved by porting libggi to gnumach/hurd, >what shoudn't be so hard. >This is the biggest single solution. Would this make X displaying on the HURD a possibility? I guess it would if X rendering were to be ported to ggi? Nic Ferrier

Re: Hurd user survey results

2000-03-14 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 12:24:45PM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > As promised, here are the tallied results of the informal survey I > conducted last week. I'm no statistician, but I'll take a wild guess > and say these results are 87.3% accurate, 19 times out of 20. ;) > 61 responded to the

Hurd user survey results

2000-03-14 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
As promised, here are the tallied results of the informal survey I conducted last week. I'm no statistician, but I'll take a wild guess and say these results are 87.3% accurate, 19 times out of 20. ;) 61 responded to the survey 13 no complaints 7 filesystem corruption 7 needs PPP 7 needs X 7 wan

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-09 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 11:48:12AM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > I'm taking an informal survey of people who use the Hurd, to get some > idea of how things are progressing. Please reply to me privately, or > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as appropriate. > > 1) Have you successfully gotten the H

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Basically, "Bought the Farm" is a slang term used in the United > States to mean someone died, e.g., "He bought the farm". I'm not > sure of its origin. The alleged origin is in government pensions to the families of soldiers killed in battle. The

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-07 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 12:22:05PM -0800, Brent Fulgham wrote: > > I have been running the Hurd six months. The Hurd is > > reasonably stable, I have only wrecked it once. I can do > > native builds of the Hurd, gcc and TeX. I can make it > > "buy the farm" by doing a large Java build; by t

RE: Hurd user survey

2000-03-07 Thread Brent Fulgham
> I have been running the Hurd six months. The Hurd is > reasonably stable, I have only wrecked it once. I can do > native builds of the Hurd, gcc and TeX. I can make it > "buy the farm" by doing a large Java build; by the > way, why is buying large quantities of land bad? > This thread w

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-07 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
> Chris Lingard writes: CL> I can make it "buy the farm" by doing a large Java build; by the CL> way, why is buying large quantities of land bad? It's better that the beasts of the Hurd graze in freedom on the prairie wilderness than be reduced to domesticity. Old McDonald is a symbol for

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-07 Thread Chris Lingard
Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > I'm taking an informal survey of people who use the Hurd, to get some > idea of how things are progressing. Please reply to me privately, or > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as appropriate. > > 1) Have you successfully gotten the Hurd running? > Yes, struggled for several weeks

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-07 Thread James Gibson
>From: Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Hurd user survey >Date: 06 Mar 2000 11:48:12 -0600 > >I'm taking an informal survey of people who use the Hurd, to get some >idea of how th

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-07 Thread Bill White
> I'm taking an informal survey of people who use the Hurd, to get some > idea of how things are progressing. Please reply to me privately, or > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as appropriate. > > 1) Have you successfully gotten the Hurd running? Yes I have, but I have not had the time to keep current. Th

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Smarty-pants. ;) Oh, and I forgot to mention that I've been using it since sometime in the very early testing period.

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Hurd user survey Date: 06 Mar 2000 11:48:12 -0600 > 1) Have you successfully gotten the Hurd running? Yes. > 2) If so, is your Hurd box currently running as you expect it to? As a GRUB developer, I should say "yes&quo

Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread George A. Dowding
1) yes 2) I haven't got past the successful install, because of other committments. My next stage involves getting onto the network. I have a functioning linux box that I am going to attempt to use as a gateway. There appears to be somewhat of a learning curve for me there. 3) Haven't spent

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread Jim Franklin
1) No. Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > > I'm taking an informal survey of people who use the Hurd, to get some > idea of how things are progressing. Please reply to me privately, or > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as appropriate. > > 1) Have you successfully gotten the Hurd running? > > 2) If so, is your H

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread jargon
06 Mar 2000 11:48:12 -0600 Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm taking an informal survey of people who use the Hurd, to get some > idea of how things are progressing. Please reply to me privately, or > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as appropriate. > > 1) Have you successfully gotten the H

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
Smarty-pants. ;) -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://fig.org/) Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://gnu.fig.org/)

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm taking an informal survey of people who use the Hurd, to get some > idea of how things are progressing. Please reply to me privately, or > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as appropriate. > > 1) Have you successfully gotten the Hurd running? Yes. > 2) I

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread R Joseph Wright
> > 1) Have you successfully gotten the Hurd running? Yes > > 2) If so, is your Hurd box currently running as you expect it to? It runs a bit better than I expected it to, although I never really use it because a) No ppp b) I don't understand it c) I'm hooked on FreeBSD

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread Didier Dubois
Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > I'm taking an informal survey of people who use the Hurd, to get some > idea of how things are progressing. Please reply to me privately, or > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as appropriate. > > 1) Have you successfully gotten the Hurd running? No. will try once again a soon as

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread Didier Dubois
Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > I'm taking an informal survey of people who use the Hurd, to get some > idea of how things are progressing. Please reply to me privately, or > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as appropriate. > > 1) Have you successfully gotten the Hurd running? > No > > 2) If so, is your Hurd b

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 11:48:12AM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > 1) Have you successfully gotten the Hurd running? Yes - I have had the Hurd running in one form or another for nearly 3 years. > 2) If so, is your Hurd box currently running as you expect it to? Better. I have a web server w

Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
I'm taking an informal survey of people who use the Hurd, to get some idea of how things are progressing. Please reply to me privately, or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as appropriate. 1) Have you successfully gotten the Hurd running? 2) If so, is your Hurd box currently running as you expect it to? 3)