Wanna watch my friend Sergey @bugaevc live code the Hurd tomorrow, Saturday
June 1st at 2pm UTC!? His goal is to update the Hurd port to AArch64 AND
to code a simple trivfs translator live. What cool simple trivfs
translator do you want to see him code (and run on AArch64)?
If you want to come, then at 2pm UTC, just point your modern web
browser at https://jitsi.member.fsf.org/Hurd-code-jam and we'll
have some fun! If there is a password, it'll be HURD. We will record the session! See you soon! #hurd#GNU
Etienne brings better keyboard support, Flavio Cruz keeps on rocking
with gdb, perl and fixes, Damien added ACPI v2 and high precision
timers and contributed SMP fixes (works on BSD!).
Sergey worked on AArch64 support in binutils and glibc and on running
Alpine on Hurd.
Luca added tests via qemu and Manolo got qemu to run on the Hurd.
I need 'git commit --llm' that would ask me a bunch of questions and then write a commit message for me based on my explanations.
Like, I fixed this complicated issue, and even though the patch itself is quite small, it takes 6 paragraphs of prose to explain what the issue even was and how it could happen.
I implemented support for copying send-once port rights for GNU #Mach (MACH_MSG_TYPE_COPY_SEND_ONCE) 😉
The patches have already been applied by Samuel.
The latest #Debian#Gnu/Hurd OS, as I ran it tonight. Very unstable and buggy, but fun to see. It is able to run #XFce at 200 MBs of RAM (Debian #Linux does so at ~800 MB).
I am surprised not to find more comments about the current #Debian news on the Fediverse: they are presently in the midst of the #time64 transition, to avoid the #year2038 problem on 32-bit architectures.
At the #Guix Days I checked with fellow #Hurd enthousiast Ricardo if he'd join if I would run an informal session on the status and development of the Hurd in Guix, so that we'd al least have two people for the session.
We've had nice sessions in the past with a handful of people and imagine my surprise that out of the 40+ attendants @ Guix Days, 16 show up to make it an amazing and informative session.
About to wrap up the #Guix Days and heck, it’s been great!!
Insightful discussions today about governance, funding, the #Hurd, the contribution workflow, Hoot… Looking forward to implementing some of the ideas that have been proposed.
@bugaevc This is absolutely amazing. If this new #Hurd architecture gets released in Debian or Guix, I will put it onto a #RaspberryPi, at least if it connects over WiFi.
If you're a systems developer, what could "we" do to make it easier for you to care about and test on the #Hurd? :gnu:
(I understand that you might not care about the Hurd for other reasons, but we could at least try to make this as friction-less as possible for you to care.)
There already are both preinstalled qemu images and installation isos of Debian GNU/Hurd readily available. Would perhaps adding them to osinfo-db help? Are the docs not good enough? Anything else?
@bugaevc Out of curiosity, how did the GSOC Rust for #Hurd project turn out? 100% complete? Still needs to be officially released? Something else? It was very quiet during the Summer, but I did notice patches were posted at the end.