On Feb 28, 2010, at 10:37 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > On 27 February 2010 08:08, Dan Amelang <[email protected]> wrote: >> (Regarding your puzzling over Alan's views, though, you might want to >> try emailing him directly. After you've done due diligence reading up >> on the subject, of course.) > > Although it would be of far greater value if such an exchange took > place in public, e.g. on this list. I agree, the discussion was interesting, it would be a shame if it was continued on a back-channel.
> VPRI seems really bad at actually getting publicity for its work: much > of the most interesting stuff, like FONC's COLA/idst, isn't even > widely available in Linux distributions, or even packaged as source > from an obvious place, which is pretty much the minimum requirement > for getting the attention of all but the determined and/or really > interested... Right now the barrier for anyone interested in the project is absurdly high. After hearing about the project, I downloaded the source, and attempted to compile on OS X, which wouldn't compile. I went as far as installing a Ubuntu image in VMWare, just for the sake of trying to get fonc to compile. It compiled, but then jolt2 gave a segmentation fault whenever I tried to use it. I did some research and noticed that the seg faults were probably related to the fact that I have a newer CPU in my machine, but at that point I felt it would be best to cut my losses and move on. That having been said, I think the project is an interesting one, but I'm not sure it's really ready for tons of publicity yet. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
