Re: XFree, an on-going story (plus a newbie question)
Brent Fulgham <brent.fulgham@xpsystems.com> writes:
> We need help with:
>
> 1. Web site management for hurd.sourceforge.net
I could help with that... actually that's what I do at work, I'm an
Internet Technical Consultant (generic title given to any who can
start FrontPage). I will write to the webmasters offering whatever
help I can offer.
> 2. Documentation of the Hurd internals (may be difficult to
> accomplish)
Eh, I wish I could unserstand the Hurd internals :)
> 3. Otherwise, get software you like to use and try to compile it.
> If it fails, note why, do any investigating you are capable of and
> report back to the list. We can help with suggestions of where to go
> next, how things work, etc.
Ok, KI was thinking about that one, I will try it and even try to fix
whatever goes wrong... but you all will be swaped by compiling
problems that are obvious to you but impossible to me :)
> 4. Try using the Hurd in a day-to-day manner. This will probably cause
> it to crash at some point. Identify repeatable cases where this happens
> and report back to the list so we all can investigate and help bulletproof
> the system.
Yes, that one seems pretty obvious, I will do that.
> 5. Torture your Hurd box by running big builds, using it as a web server,
> etc. and document what makes it crash. Help with the forensic analysis.
>
ACK
> That's all I can think of right now...
... and that's more than enough :)
Thanks for the topics, I really needed some starters.
I will also make a small page at sdf.lonestar.org in portuguese with
GNU/Hurd info and links, then you can all link to it and ppl will be
amazed by the international scope of the OS :)
best regards,
Frederico S. Muñoz
fsmunoz@sdf.lonestar.org
Reply to: