Re: It's really easy to use the Hurd to read mailing lists

2022-07-12 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
>> Already did it a long ago, but got no response, see bug#50477. > > Thank you. This bug report doesn’t seem to be about Guix System being > “unstable” with the Hurd. It is just about ping not working inside > qemu, which is a frequently encountered problem. See also the Hurd > wiki: > >

Re: It's really easy to use the Hurd to read mailing lists

2022-07-12 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Akib Azmain Turja writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Akib Azmain Turja writes: >> >>>>> Yeah, Hurd is much stable. But Guix GNU/Hurd isn't :( >>>>> >>>> >>>> That's kind of sad.

Re: It's really easy to use the Hurd to read mailing lists

2022-07-12 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Akib Azmain Turja writes: >>> Yeah, Hurd is much stable. But Guix GNU/Hurd isn't :( >>> >> >> That's kind of sad. I wonder what makes GNU/Hurd Guix System not so >> stable. Is debian GNU/Hurd with the guix package manager running on >> top of it stable? > > I think, but not sure. Looks

Updating the hurd in Guix

2022-02-11 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Damien Zammit writes: > On 11/2/22 3:42 pm, jbra...@dismail.de wrote: >> Way to go Damien for his 1st Fosdem GNU/Hurd presentation, which he nailed >> by the way! It was an >> awesome presentation! If you haven't seen it yet, then you should check it >> out here: >> >>

Re: Hurd Security vulnerabilities, please upgrade!

2021-08-10 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Samuel, In the past months, Sergey Bugaev has been working on fixing some Hurd security vulnerabilities. This is now fixed in the latest Debian packages, so please upgrade and reboot! Thanks for the fixes and the heads-up! hurd >= 1:0.9.git20210404-9 libc0.3 >= 2.31-13+hurd.1

Re: License of Hurd's common lisp bindings

2021-04-30 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Maxime, Ricardo Wurmus schreef op do 29-04-2021 om 23:33 [+0200]: [...] Are you compiling this on a Hurd system? Or do you build it on GNU+Linux first? On GNU+Linux first. I don't have a good GNU+Hurd setup yet. I can create a childhurd, but then I still have to send patches from

Re: License of Hurd's common lisp bindings

2021-04-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Maxime Devos writes: Ricardo Wurmus schreef op do 29-04-2021 om 17:29 [+0200]: Hi Maxime, are you still interested in working on Guile bindings for the Hurd? I'm still interested, but the conversion Common Lisp -> Scheme was a lot more tedious and tricky than expected at first, s

Re: License of Hurd's common lisp bindings

2021-04-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Maxime, are you still interested in working on Guile bindings for the Hurd? If so, do you have a public repository where we could collaborate? I second the request for license clarification. With the GPL, strict versioning without the upgrade clause makes combining works difficult.

Re: Compiling glibc: mutex-solid.c:20:10: fatal error: cthreads.h: No such file or directory

2021-01-16 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Joshua Branson writes: > Does guix system use your crosshurd to cross compile the hurd from X86_64? No. -- Ricardo

Re: It's 2021, I want to contribute to the Hurd development. Where should I start?

2021-01-07 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
haha wang writes: > I have joined the #hurd IRC channel, but it is moderated and I can't post any > message. How to > get over it? You need to register your nick with Freenode. See here: https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration This has become necessary due to excessive amounts of

Re: It's 2021, I want to contribute to the Hurd development. Where should I start?

2021-01-07 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi, > I want to contribute to the GNU Hurd Project and > read the guide pages on the official site. Good! The best way to get started is to first use the Hurd VM image. Then I’d suggest getting the sources and setting up a development environment. This isn’t as clear as it should be due to

Re: Help with Outreachy internship

2020-10-11 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Almudena Garcia writes: >> You would have to wait until the next round of internships. > When is the next round? The Outreachy website says: Future internship rounds will be May 2021 (initial applications open in late January 2021) and December 2021 (initial applications open in late

Re: Help with Outreachy internship

2020-10-10 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi, > Some days ago, I read about the Free Software Foundation offering > internships to contribute with GNU projects (like Hurd). I'm interested in > making an internship contributing with Hurd. > https://www.fsf.org/volunteer/internships/internships > > But, to get paid, I need to manage this

Re: Running the Hurd in qemu possibilities

2020-09-17 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Joshua Branson writes: > My username in Guix System is "joshua". I got the ssh command from > the wiki here: […] Since you’re using Guix System, I’d like to point out that you can also reconfigure your system to run a “childhurd” service. This is a Hurd VM built from Guix that you can

Re: [PATCH] SMP initialization: detection and enumeration

2020-07-19 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Almudena Garcia writes: > But I've already committed these changes in my repository. How can I > recommit them? You can change commits with “git rebase”. Use “git rebase -i” for interactive rebasing, which gives you a list of commits to which you can apply changes. If you want to change all

Re: [PATCH] SMP initialization: detection and enumeration

2020-07-19 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi, for any patch it’s best to not just show a single large diff but to split the changes into logically related commits. You’re probably working with Git, so the unit that we’re working with is a Git commit. You should group related changes and commit them together. The commit message

Re: Sound support for Hurd and shortfalls of ALSA

2020-06-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Damien, > I would like to know what the Hurd community thinks about this wiki, > and whether anyone would like to help me design and implement > a new server API for sound that will run in Hurd userspace, > without the existing flaws of the ALSA design. > > No one seems interested to

Re: Two web pages? The web page looks abandoned

2020-05-09 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ben Card writes: >> Also the website looks old, which can scare off potential developers >> and contributors. > I agree! Well, I don't know if "looking old" is the problem, but it's > definitely lacking proper maintenance. > >> Did you consider updating the website? What about forking Guix's

[PATCH] doc: Add missing word.

2020-04-16 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
* doc/mach.texi (Features): Add missing word. --- doc/mach.texi | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/mach.texi b/doc/mach.texi index 07cb0ad1..dcf0f93c 100644 --- a/doc/mach.texi +++ b/doc/mach.texi @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ IPC, currently not available in GNU Mach).

[PATCH] rump_kernel: Add link to Robert's project.

2020-04-03 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
--- rump_kernel.mdwn | 4 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/rump_kernel.mdwn b/rump_kernel.mdwn index 338f5581..71b376e0 100644 --- a/rump_kernel.mdwn +++ b/rump_kernel.mdwn @@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] A tutorial introduction for those interested in using

Re: I cannot edit the wiki

2020-01-08 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Joshua, > Can't locate URI/Escape.pm in @INC (you may need to install the URI::Escape > module) (@INC contains: > /home/joshua/.guix-profile/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.30.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi > /home/joshua/.guix-profile/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.30.0 >

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

Re: boot guixsd

2018-03-03 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Rene, > I'm reviewing how GNU GuixSD/Linux boot, > > $ cat /proc/cmdline > BOOT_IMAGE=/gnu/store/jnww66749r8ck6l2rwgvpzzbnazs0392-linux-libre-4.15.5/bzImage > --root=root --system=/gnu/store/qcia33hqzi6md3q18frs16piis6xxy9i-system >

Re: Hurd lecture

2018-01-19 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Brent, > I put a screencast of the lecture on youtube: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwsuAEF2FYE thank you. This was very interesting. The introduction to Mach IPC and memory management was especially good. I wonder if a shorter variant of this part of the lecture could be used by

Re: Porting with Guix

2017-01-05 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
ren...@openmailbox.org writes: > Now there are two errors related to the 'Check' phase of libgc and > guile: > In libgc shows: […] > building of > `/gnu/store/y3icscjhkk7pa7dg21xqy46riysi36rn-libgc-7.6.0.drv' timed > out after 3600 seconds of silence You can increase the

Re: Porting with Guix

2016-12-28 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Manolis, > Now on the problem, I suppose you are using the Guix version from my > github repo? The wip-hurd branch is an older version which is probably > why you have those issues. I created a new branch in my github repo > called wip-hurd-native for you to clone. I cherry picked my latest >