Re: Error with random generator

2018-06-07 Thread Joshua Branson
Samuel Thibault writes: Herein follows a short rant. I'm not the best person to speak about this, but I really do appreciate Samuel's work on the Hurd. I hope I'm not speaking out of turn. > Hello, > > Please always keep the mailing list in Cc, so that I am not the only > recipient of the mail

Re: Error with random generator

2018-06-07 Thread Joshua Branson
Almudena Garcia writes: > Excuse me, sometimes I press the wrong button when I reply the email. Also don't feel too bad. People make mistakes. I'm actually still trying to figure out how to use mailing lists. I'm currently subscribed to emacs, guix, and the Hurd, and I have a complicated filt

Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk

2018-06-07 Thread Joshua Branson
Hello, I was thinking last night about the Hurd, and I had some ideas that I thought I'd share. I will freely admit that I'm not a Hurd developer or a software developer. The longest piece of code I've written was a projecteuler.net solution...I've also been a huge fan of the Hurd project and ha

Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk

2018-06-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joshua Branson, le jeu. 07 juin 2018 09:56:31 -0400, a ecrit: > P.S. Samuel feel free to let me know if this email sounded too presumptuous. It doesn't sound so to me. Thanks for writing it :) (I just doubt that much business can be done with the Hurd, but who knows :) ) Samuel

Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk

2018-06-07 Thread liberamenso10000
About contributions to Hurd, I like to help in desktop bugs. I found many bugs or not implemented tasks, that I desire to solve. - Add support to other desktop manager than xdm: Currently, the only functional DM is xdm. Lightdm is installed by default during Xfce installation, but don't runs. I

Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk

2018-06-07 Thread Almudena Garcia
P.D.: Excuse me my bad english. I'm spanish ;) 2018-06-07 16:42 GMT+02:00 : > About contributions to Hurd, I like to help in desktop bugs. I found many > bugs or not implemented tasks, that I desire to solve. > > - Add support to other desktop manager than xdm: Currently, the only > functional DM

Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk

2018-06-07 Thread Joshua Branson
liberamenso10...@gmail.com writes: > About contributions to Hurd, I like to help in desktop bugs. I found many > bugs or not implemented tasks, that I desire to solve. > > - Add support to other desktop manager than xdm: Currently, the only > functional DM is xdm. Lightdm is installed by default

Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk

2018-06-07 Thread Almudena Garcia
About Hangout, a few months ago I was in your Jitsi session, but nobody more was there. Furthermore, when you connected the youtube transmission, Jitsi cat the videocall and I only could see and ear, but don't participate 2018-06-07 18:58 GMT+02:00 Joshua Branson : > liberamenso10...@gmail.com w

Enable SMP support

2018-06-07 Thread Almudena Garcia
Hi all: Reading this post in Hurd FAQ, I read that Mach has SMP support, but It was disabled because the Linux device drivers glue code isn't thread-safe. https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq/smp.html Then, I ask . Are there any form to enable this SMP support in GNU Mach? (At my own risk). I

Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk

2018-06-07 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Joshua, > We need to show people how to use mailing lists. I'm actually wanting > to make a youtube video explaining this...Mailings lists are still super > hard. They are not intuitive... What do you find unintuitive about them? Do you mean the patch workflow via email or general discuss