A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check

2008-10-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
I did a writeup of the current results. As the Brainstorm Phase is finished, it's time for a Reality Check: Checking which of the ideas can already be done easily with the Hurd in its current state, which ones are a bit more complex but already possible, which ones need a bit of coding

Presenting Hurd translators to FUSE people...

2008-10-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, I just showed the simple hello world translator to a fellow student who does FUSE stuff, and the reaction was 'wow, that's cool'. More exactly what he does is creating a FUSE library which can interpret transparently represent files as directories (with much pain). After he did a

Re: Presenting Hurd translators to FUSE people...

2008-10-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Arne Babenhauserheide, le Tue 28 Oct 2008 18:38:08 +0100, a écrit : If anyone is interested in his research papers on FUSE performance, justs ay so. I have his OK to pass them on. I think this is where the Hurd can significantly gain performance compared to the tinkering of FUSE. Samuel

Presenting GNU/Hurd... what about serial console support?

2008-10-28 Thread Ivan Shmakov
AB == Arne Babenhauserheide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] AB And he was quite impressed, since he could directly see the AB potential in that. AB Even though I did it over X11-forwarding with a possible command AB rate of 2 per minute or so. What purpose did X11 actually serve

Re: Presenting GNU/Hurd... what about serial console support?

2008-10-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ivan Shmakov, le Wed 29 Oct 2008 00:38:13 +0600, a écrit : I vaguely recall that GNU Mach had no (or broken?) support for serial console, does it still apply? It does compile and I think it should work, just set RCLINE to 0. Note however that qemu now has a -curses option, which

Hurd GSoC 2008 code_swarm

2008-10-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
I finally created and postprocessed a code_swarm of the work done in the Hurd project during this years Google Summer of Code. - http://draketo.de/filme/codeswarm/hurd-gsoc2008.ogv This time with text (and two typos :( ) and music! I hope you enjoy it! (Please tell me what you think about it!)

Re: Hurd GSoC 2008 code_swarm

2008-10-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
PS: If you like this video, please upload it wherever you want! The license is cc-nc-sa, since the music I use is cc licensed (but at least it is usable under cc license for everyone who buys the tracks - and that means passing on and giving anyone else that same right, too). And if someone

Re: Hurd GSoC 2008 code_swarm

2008-10-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
PS 2: There's also an .flv version, and one as mp4 (both done via ffmpeg): - http://draketo.de/filme/codeswarm/hurd-gsoc2008.flv - http://draketo.de/filme/codeswarm/hurd-gsoc2008.mp4 Best wishes, Arne Am Mittwoch 29 Oktober 2008 00:35:24 schrieb Arne Babenhauserheide: I finally created and