Fwd: Re: glibc 2.2.2-1 uploaded (-> network ioctls, ifconfig, eventually PPP)

[Daniel E Baumann <baumannd@msoe.edu>]

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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:07:41 -0600
From: Daniel E Baumann <baumannd@msoe.edu>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i
To: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject: Re: glibc 2.2.2-1 uploaded (-> network ioctls, ifconfig, eventually PPP)

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 04:01:04AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I uploaded glibc 2.2.2-1 packages. They are currently in
> http://incoming.debian.org, and will beinstalled with the next dinstall run
> if everything goes well. They work fine for me.

<snip>

> Interested parties should work on the user space PPP port by Daniel Baumann.
> I think there are a few bugs in it, but all Hurd/glibc functionality is
> there, so there is no reason to stall user level PPP development any longer.
> I think there might be only a few small hops until we can get PPP to the
> Hurd, so throw your weight into it if you can. The time has come.

I am on it. I am still here, just have been busy with school and other GNU 
projects, like GNU Enterprise ;).

I have the week off from winter quarter so I shall update the 
GNU/Hurd and get cracking. I was planning on finishing it up this week anyway.
This is good news. Thanks Marcus.

Dan
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Daniel E Baumann       baumannd@msoe.edu
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Daniel E Baumann       baumannd@msoe.edu
Web location:          http://www.msoe.edu/~baumannd
"Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code."
      -- Dave Olsen

And if cynics ridicule freedom, ridicule community...if ``hard nosed 
realists'' say that profit is the only ideal...just ignore them, and use 
copyleft all the same.
      -- RMS