Dear Alfred,
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 15:21, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Depends with what you mean "GNU/Hurd 1.0". Do you mean a release of > the GNU system? A release of the Debian GNU/Hurd port? > Maybe what I mean to be precise is the release of Debian GNU/Hurd. > If you wish to help and make a release of the Debian GNU/Hurd port, > then fixing bugs that are related to the Hurd is a good start. You > could also become a Debian Developr and help out with Debian in > general. See www.debian.org for all the details. I just checked Debian BTS, type hurd in the package name, and found out lots of old bugs. Ranging from 5 years to (newest) 57 days old of bugs. Wow! > > For the GNU system just subscribing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a > good start, and reading the mailing list archives (they are spam > free!). I'm not aware about this mail-list. Can you tell me more? > Well, truth to be told it seems that we are abandong GNU Mach 2.x (aka > OSKIT-Mach) since it is a pitta to add/update drivers to. Most people > use GNU Mach 1.x to my knowledge. > I see. Then I can just use the sources from debian, and move along from there? How about the steps to L4 microkernel? Is there any documents explaining roadmaps to L4? > Some essential info I can get also about a need of pthread, a real > filesystem (ext2/ext3?), and porting lots of applications. > > The Hurd already supports ext2. It has some support for pthreads. > And most programs will not need any porting unless they use funky > features. > I understands pthread support is not completed, yet? How can I help here? > You can get the CVS version of the Hurd (and some others stuff) from: > > http://www.update.uu.se/~ams/gnu/cvs/ > > And I think Savannah just started making daily CVS tarballs... > Thank you for this! > What can this poor guy do to help in GNU/Hurd development? > > By starting to fix things that you consider broken, and missing. That > is usually the place where one starts helping. > Okay, I'll try to make X work on my system then. Yesterday it keeps on failing. Maybe I could find something out today. > The TODO list is actually not that outdated. :) Err, yess. Shame on me. What was I've been reading. > > Happy hacking. > Best Regards. -arief
