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Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk
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Joshua Branson |
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Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk |
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Fri, 08 Jun 2018 13:08:25 -0400 |
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Almudena Garcia <liberamenso10000@gmail.com> writes:
> P.D.: Excuse me my bad english. I'm spanish ;)
Don't feel bad. I admire a lot of French and Spanish developers. :)
Samuel may be one of them...
>
> 2018-06-07 16:42 GMT+02:00 <liberamenso10000@gmail.com>:
>
> About contributions to Hurd, I like to help in desktop bugs. I found many
> bugs or not implemented tasks, that I desire to solve.
>
> - Add support to other desktop manager than xdm: Currently, the only
> functional DM is xdm. Lightdm is installed by default during Xfce
> installation, but don't runs. I would like to solve this.
>
> - Add support to change tty after xorg start: Currently, when you starts
> xorg, you can't to return to tty, which causes many bizzarres situations, as
> close xorg... From xorg, or stop the DM from
> the DE terminal emulator (it is so bizarre, and use to cause problems). I
> will like to solve this also.
>
> - Enable polkit support: when the DE starts, this don't have permissions to
> shutdown the system from graphical environment. The most standard solution to
> this is to use polkit to allow
> actions to users. I found that Hurd has polkit installed, but feels that It
> isn't used. May be interesting enable it.
>
> Other interesting thing can be recover the hard shutdown (shutdown machine,
> not only the system), but It feels so difficult.
>
> My knowledge is so limited. I have experience with bash scripting and
> GNU/Linux administration. I have also knowledge of C++ and basic C. In
> classroom I learn a bit about POSIX process
> management, with fork(), execl(), fifos, pipes and message queue. But I
> never touched the deep of a OS.
>
> Now I'm searching a Pentium 4 computer to try Hurd installation in real
> machine. Previously I got a successfully installation in a 2000's AMD
> computer, but this PC is so slow to run the DE
> correctly.
>
> If you are in Facebook's GNU/Hurd group, you can to read about my
> experiments with Hurd in Virtualbox and in the real PC. I was talking with
> Thomas Schwindge in this group.
>
> Now I have to study my exams, but someday I would to contribute to Hurd
> project
>
> El Jueves 7 de junio de 2018, Samuel Thibault escribió:
> > Joshua Branson, le jeu. 07 juin 2018 09:56:31 -0400, a ecrit:
> > > P.S. Samuel feel free to let me know if this email sounded too
> presumptuous.
> >
> > It doesn't sound so to me. Thanks for writing it :)
> >
> > (I just doubt that much business can be done with the Hurd, but who
> > knows :) )
> >
> > Samuel
> >
> >
>
> --
> Enviado desde mi Jolla
- Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk, Joshua Branson, 2018/06/07
- Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk, Samuel Thibault, 2018/06/07
- Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk, Amos Jeffries, 2018/06/08
- Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk, Joshua Branson, 2018/06/08
- Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk, Amos Jeffries, 2018/06/09
- Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk, Joshua Branson, 2018/06/09
- Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk, Almudena Garcia, 2018/06/09
Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk, Ricardo Wurmus, 2018/06/07