Re: Debian Archive architecture removals

2015-05-05 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag, 20. April 2015, 00:22:08 schrieb Joerg Jaspert: > hurd-i386 > = > Well before wheezy was released, we talked with the HURD porters, and > they agreed to re-check their archive status just after the wheezy > release[1]. The plan was to move the HURD port off ftp-master if it > was

Re: Sound on GNU/Hurd

2015-08-16 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Sonntag, 16. August 2015, 23:49:15 schrieb Robert Millan: > I managed to play some sound on GNU/Hurd using patched Rump and a modified > mplayer. For > those interested: Cool! Thank you for sharing it! Did you already share the patches in a public list? If not, could you send them here inlin

Re: help CD-rom

2016-12-11 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Danial Behzadi writes: > I think hurd is not supporting either sata or usb yet. > > در ۱۱ دسامبر ۲۰۱۶ ۰:۰۴:۵۲ (GMT+03:30)، AlexLikeRock > نوشت: >>hi guys >> >> >>i want install HURD at partition at HARDWARE If your hardware isn’t supported by the Hurd yet, you’ll need to get new hardware or

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released!

2017-06-18 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Samuel Thibault writes: > It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the > release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2017. That’s awesome! Thank you! I’d just like to note that "Hurd in 140 letters command" still works: http://www.draketo.de/english/free-software/howto-hurd-140-chars w

Re: How to identify "running on a Hurd system"?

2017-08-25 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Narcis Garcia writes: > El 24/08/17 a les 23:12, AlexLikeRock ha escrit: >> On August 24, 2017 2:53:43 PM GMT-06:00, Christoph Biedl >> wrote: >> I agree, GNU/hurd its simple original "GNU" > Nobody runs the original GNU but evolved operating systems (including > GNU+Linux, GNU+Hurd, etc.) Th

Re: hurd: PIE support

2017-12-23 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Samuel Thibault writes: > For information, that's the last bit that will allow us to enable pie on > hurd-i386, thus fixing libgcrypt20 build, and as a consequence the whole > kde set. That’s awesome! Thank you for this present! Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch sein heißt politisch sein ohne

Re: Fwd: [Libreboot] Attempt to boot GNU Mach

2019-06-05 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
nicolasm...@tutanota.com writes: > FYI Thank you! Reading the message I’m not sure whether it worked or not. Do you have additional information? Best wishes, Arne > tob...@platen-software.de writes: > > I tried to boot GNU/Hurd on a libreboot machine, just because I wanted to > > know whether

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2019 released!

2019-07-07 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Samuel Thibault writes: > It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the > release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2019. This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at > the time of the stable Debian "stretch" release (July 2019), so it is > mostly based on the same sources. It is not an offic

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2019 released!

2019-07-07 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Samuel Thibault writes: >> > * A PCI arbiter has been introduced, and will be useful to properly >> > manage PCI access, as well as provide fine-grain hardware access. >> >> Is this a viable first step towards a Hurdish sound system? > > It is. Cool! If you want to find funding for that, have

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2019 released!

2019-07-13 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Jeffrey, Jeffrey Walton writes: > On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 7:57 PM Samuel Thibault wrote: >> >> It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the >> release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2019. This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at … >> (https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/10.0/hu

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2019 released!

2019-07-13 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Richard Braun writes: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 08:37:54PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> > 1. The installer uses ext2. >> … >> > Regarding (1), ext2 seems a bit unusual in 2019, but it may be a >> > design decision. It may be worth noting ext4 is a

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2019 released!

2019-07-13 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Jeffrey Walton writes: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 2:48 PM Richard Braun wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 08:37:54PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> > > 1. The installer uses ext2. >> > … >> > > Regarding (1), ext2 seems a bit unusual

Re: oss-libsalsa package

2009-05-16 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Saturday, 16. May 2009 15:24:04 Samuel Thibault wrote: > libasound-dev/libasound2-dev build-deps are painful. Fortunately, OSS > (opensound.com) provides libsalsa, a compatibility layer between OSS > and ALSA: it is ABI-compatible with libasound (actually using alsa's > headers), and just makes

Re: oss-libsalsa package

2009-05-16 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Saturday, 16. May 2009 22:52:12 Samuel Thibault wrote: > It just means that it can shortly have support for applications using > alsa. For now it still won't have actual sound support, but when it > gets some, applications will start seeing sound cards, be it via OSS or > alsa. Ah, OK. Thank

Next version of Mercurial should build on Hurd unchanged again.

2009-06-07 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
The next version of Mercurial will likely build unchanged on the Hurd again. Best wishes, Arne -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [issue1689] Some platforms miss the PATH_MAX definition (e.g. GNU/Hurd) Date: Saturday, 6. June 2009 From: Brendan Cully To: arne_...@web.de Br

Re: Hurd CDs

2009-09-06 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Ivan, Am Samstag, 29. August 2009 20:26:56 schrieb Ivan Malone: > We're attempting a huge project, just the 4 of us here, on a small grant > and it will take time to gain some momentum but we are going to be > working full-time on it for at least the next two years, beyond that - > it'll depen

Re: Hurd L1 iso's. Progress log.

2009-09-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Dienstag, 29. September 2009 03:49:52 schrieb Philip Charles: > Any questions? Currently no questions - I just want to say "Wow!". Great work! Best wishes, Arne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: L1 iso's - progress to date.

2009-10-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Samstag, 3. Oktober 2009 14:34:41 schrieb Philip Charles: > On Sat, 03 Oct 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Philip Charles, le Sat 03 Oct 2009 21:19:12 +1300, a écrit : > > > The Hurd cannot access files toward the end of a DVD. > > > > How far to the end? It may just be the 2GB or 4GB limit. >

Re: What to do with it (was: installation report)

2009-11-04 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag, 2. November 2009 02:57:11 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: > Hi, > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 04:19:04PM +0100, Robert Lemmen wrote: > > i tried to install the hurd and finally succeeded to some point (now i > > don't know what to do with it!), > > Good question actually :-) You could

Re: native installation with grub2

2009-11-27 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Freitag, 27. November 2009 18:39:28 schrieb Samuel Thibault: > I'm glad to announce that the latest grub2 package (1.97+20091125-1) > does support native installation from GNU/Hurd itself! Great! Many thanks! - Arne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Fresh and updated qemu image

2010-04-18 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Jose, Am Sonntag, 18. April 2010 01:57:37 schrieb Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez: > Please, can you tell me if Debian Proyect and/or GNU/Hurd Team can and want > host this qemu image for keep it available (for a while)?. My idea is > people who try Debian GNU/Hurd through qemu need a system newer t

Re: Fresh and updated qemu image

2010-04-21 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Jose, Am Dienstag, 20. April 2010 12:53:44 schrieb Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez: > I think the updated qemu img file is a bit big, 225,3 Mb. But "it is" and > the system is all "ready to use" as GNU/Hurd can be right now. > > I tried to look for my own hosting web site for the file, but nowdays

Re: Fresh and updated qemu image

2010-04-21 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Mittwoch, 21. April 2010 13:55:32 schrieb Michael Banck: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:53:44AM +, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote: > > I think the updated qemu img file is a bit big, 225,3 Mb. But "it is" and > > the system is all "ready to use" as GNU/Hurd can be right now. > > Another prob

Re: Fresh and updated qemu image

2010-04-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Jose, Am Sonntag, 25. April 2010 11:14:09 schrieb Samuel Thibault: > Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez, le Sun 25 Apr 2010 02:35:04 +, a écrit : > > I was investigating the way for get a "good" hosting system and i just > > now discover Dropbox, wich looks really a good, reliable, simple and > > e

Re: Resignation

2010-07-25 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Thank you for your great work! I wish you success and joy! - Arne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Arbitrary Limits (was: Help in testing a patch for efax-gtk FTBFS on hurd)

2010-08-13 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Monday 09 August 2010 22:55:31 olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > Originally the Hurd was meant to be binary compatible with BSD BTW; but > this is no longer relevant... There was a BSD Google Summer of Code project to achieve binary compatibility with Hurd translators, but it seems not have fail

Re: Unreproducible buildd error of hugin/experimental on Debian/hurd

2010-10-31 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, On Sunday 31 October 2010 07:59:58 Thomas Schwinge wrote: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:02:23AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > cd build-dir && cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr > > -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,defs" > > -DCMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z

Re: [Fwd: Some qemu+hurd questions]

2010-10-31 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Svante, > Installation went well, apt and grub2 work perfectly, however extremely > slow, several hours for the installation. Great! (that it worked) > - When installing Hurd, no Swedish locale was found, I used the default. > The problem is that the US keyboard is used by qemu+hurd, while

Re: [Fwd: Some qemu+hurd questions]

2010-10-31 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
> - When installing Hurd, no Swedish locale was found, I used the default. > The problem is that the US keyboard is used by qemu+hurd, while I have a > Swedish keyboard. It is very difficult to type correctly since common > characters are at strange positions, e.g. - is /, * is |, ö is :, > etc. Ho

Re: [Fwd: Some qemu+hurd questions]

2010-11-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Wednesday 03 November 2010 00:56:05 Svante Signell wrote: > I have tried vnc as Arne suggested, will do some more tests later. I > did not have any luck for the keyboard with -vnc :1 -k sv and > qvncviewer. In addition it is much slower than curses/default. Which vnc do you use? I use tigervnc.

Re: [Fwd: Some qemu+hurd questions]

2010-11-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Wednesday 03 November 2010 01:39:04 Samuel Thibault wrote: > Samuel, still wondering why people insist on running a graphical desktop > on Debian GNU/Hurd although that'll just look exactly like a Debian > GNU/Linux graphical desktop. To replicate all functionality of the GNU/Linux box and add

Re: [Fwd: Some qemu+hurd questions]

2010-11-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Wednesday 03 November 2010 10:46:40 Svante Signell wrote: > Well, with only one console available in Hurd compared to Linux seven > virtual consoles how are you suspected to be able to do any serious > development work? Add to that the Hurd console under qemu does not > support scrolling or my k

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-15 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Saturday 12 February 2011 11:04:56 olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > > I think we should revisit their old list of requirements and see how > > we do, prepare a report on that and ask them what else we should do > > now. Is that doable in an hour? If yes, could you post the link to the requirem

Re: Build of emacs_23.2+1-7

2011-03-16 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
> In case somebody is interested I can send the emacs23_23.2 > +1-7.debian.tar.gz including the patch (unfortunately did not update the > version due to lack of a decent editor :) or the .deb files (not signed, > since I'm not a maintainer). Yes, please! Best wishes, Arne signature.asc

Re: Deb sources

2011-03-22 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Monday 21 March 2011 23:02:52 David Hiran Watson wrote: > If that's correct, why am I having trouble installing packages via apt-get? > I started up the pfinet translator as described in > http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install. You did this? settrans -fgap /servers/socket/2 /

Re: hurd 0.401 is released!

2011-04-02 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Saturday 02 April 2011 01:54:58 Samuel Thibault wrote: > I'm sorry, this image was only meant to be working yesterday actually. Good work. You got me (though indirectly :) ). Congrats! - Arne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-04-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Sunday 27 March 2011 18:52:36 Samuel Thibault wrote: > Xorg + > gnome/kde + some webbrowser working. How about Xorg + GNUstep with a browser? We already had that last year. Best wishes, Arne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: CD set

2011-05-29 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Wish: A download link, so I can put it in the news :) Best wishes, Arne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: DDE - Commit fb489ff causes FTBFS

2011-07-02 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
At Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:53:27 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Svante Signell, le Thu 30 Jun 2011 12:10:44 +0200, a écrit : > > On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 20:06 -0400, Stephen Gilles wrote: > > > I had been trying to build DDE packages for Arch Hurd for a while, and > > > aft> > Nice to see that DDE i

Re: new qemu image

2011-07-16 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Cool! Many thanks! At Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:03:39 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > I have updated the qemu image, so people don't get the perl immediate > configuration issue, and to make xorg with icewm pre-installed. > > Samuel > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-r

Re: hdf5-1.8.7-2~exp7 in experimental builds fine

2011-08-24 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Svante, At Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:53:04 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > build dependencies are now fulfilled and it builds > perfectly That sounds great! HDF5 is one of the things where I realized that the Hurd could be very useful in practical work: Getting a quick overview of a HDF5 file by

Re: e2fsprogs patch for review (and other stuff)

2011-10-05 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Dienstag, 4. Oktober 2011, 17:53:49 schrieb Svante Signell: > Even if Samuel creates the build summaries like summary.txt and > graph-total-top.txt there is no priority list on which packages are most > important to concentrate on. Such a list would be very useful for people > working with packa

Re: DDE in Debian GNU/Hurd, Re: hurd_20120219-1_hurd-i386.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2012-02-21 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag, 20. Februar 2012, 04:53:20 schrieb Samuel Thibault: > - gnumach notably integrates the new allocator from braunr & macsim, as > well as support for DDE. > - hurd notably enables the console by default, and includes DDE. This is great! Thank you very much! Best wishes, Arne signat

Re: Imminent Debian GNU/Hurd release

2013-05-11 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Donnerstag, 9. Mai 2013, 18:40:22 schrieb Paweł Sadkowski: > Hello, > > are you interested in some publicity for this oncoming Debian GNU/Hurd > release now, ie. in next issue of DPN (which is scheduled for this > Monday) and some Polish news websites I'm contributing to, or do you > preferer t

Re: New wiki system: logging in

2007-08-10 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
ns), so it might be a good bet to support OpenID 2.0 as well. It will mean, that I'll be able to use my KDE ID in the wiki, or use the wiki ID in KDE. What are the risks of it? Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch sein Heißt politisch sein Ohne es zu merken. - Arne Babenhauserheide ( http

Re: On vacation

2008-06-17 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
. I > swear I will work on new hardware for at least the wiki box and flubber > when I return from vacation. > > Thanks, > > Barry deFreese -- Unpolitisch sein Heißt politisch sein Ohne es zu merken. - Arne Babenhauserheide ( http://draketo.de ) -- Weblog: http://blog.dra

Re: Help

2008-09-21 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
It isn't finished (that means: In a state to be released), because there are still some missing pieces. For example it doesn't yet have a sound device, and it isn't trivial to run X on it. But it can already be used as production system - as long as you don't need the missing pieces. And the

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 released!

2021-08-14 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
Samuel Thibault writes: > It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the > release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2021. This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at Awesome! > * The port of go is complete > > * Support for file record locking was added > > * Some parts of experimental APIC

Re: System Program

2021-12-02 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
Dear Ibtisam Al Hinai, How much time and how many people do you have to realize a service? Starting points to get into Hurd development are at https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/contributing.html#index1h2 larger interesting things to build can be found on https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/communi

Re: System Program

2021-12-02 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
sing Python. How we can integrate it into > the Hurd microkernel. > > Many Thanks, > CS students > > في الخميس، ٢ ديسمبر ٢٠٢١ ٧:٢٩ م Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide > كتب: > > Dear Ibtisam Al Hinai, > > How much time and how many people do you have to realize a

Re: Maybe helping again?

2024-07-10 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
William ML Leslie writes: > On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 at 11:13, Barry deFreese wrote: > It has been a LONG time. Glad to see that you all are hacking away > still. I'm hoping I can try to get involved again (if you'll have me > or even remember me :) ). Definitely! (on both counts) > It's great

Re: Hurd UX testing

2020-07-05 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
Samuel Thibault writes: > Amos Jeffries, le dim. 05 juil. 2020 07:21:42 +1200, a ecrit: >> On 4/07/20 11:02 pm, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> > Amos Jeffries, le sam. 04 juil. 2020 07:23:43 +1200, a ecrit: >> >> >> >> Synaptic Menu: Settings->Repositories >> > >> > I'm *really* wondering: how did

Re: Debian/HURD, real hardware

2021-01-06 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
Marcin Laszewski writes: > I write this mail from my Debian/Hurd system(!) on my real hardware: Awesome! I’ll skip the debugging (because others are currently in a better position to help), just wanted to cheer! :-) > - CPU Celeron 415MHz > - 512 RAM > - NE2000 ISA Network Card. >

Re: Runit as init system in Debian GNU/Hurd

2025-04-06 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
Samuel Thibault writes: >> On the topic of init systems, many will know that GNU Shepher 1.0 has been >> released >> (https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/news/2024/12/the-shepherd-1.0.0-released/), >> and it is in Debian but not yet building on the hurd >> (https://buildd.debian.org/status/packa