Re: Hurd Advocacy?
Glenn McGrath <bug1@optushome.com.au> writes:
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:31:37 -0700 (PDT)
> Hurd Advocate <hurd_advocate@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > - Are we nice enough to newbs? (I tend to think so, but there was a
> > little hissy-fit about change-log colon-placement for hello.c on
> > bug-hurd last month)
>
> One of the things that drove me away last time was being refused
> help on irc because of how i phrased a question. (re GNU/Hurd naming
> conventions) Some tolerance would be nice.
/ignore is a really nice feature of IRC :)
Just ask your question a bit later on IRC when more/other people are
online, people who are willing to help.
> > - Is there any one thing which could be fixed to attact a lot more
> > users?
> > PPP?
> > sound?
> > USB?
> > GNOME?
> > journaled file system?
> > OpenOffice?
>
> Stability, longer uptime.
Absolutely the most important.
> > Anyways, I'd like to hear your thoughts.
>
> Is the random number generator issue solved ? (it used to be a problem
> when running ssh)
I always copy a binary (/bin/bash for example) to /dev/urandom. It is
really ugly, but ssh works. :)
--
Marco
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