Re: Help compiling oskit-mach

[B. Douglas Hilton]

Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> Nobody who has ever worked seriously on GNU/Hurd on L4 has spent his time
> writing web pages about it.
>
> The first "documentation" if you can call it was Neals VM slides, and now
> the hurd-on-l4.tex document in the hurd-l4 source tree module of the hurd
> CVS repository.  Of course the mails on this maiing list are also relevant.
>
> I am now starting at bootstrapping the implementation.  That means that
> there is code, but it is not much yet and most of it is definitely not in
> its final form.  I try to write as much as needed quickly to get
> bootstrapped, so that everybody can work on the parts they want to work on,
> while still having some sort of platform where things can be tried out.
Hmm. Perhaps I could help out here. I wrote and developed the greater 
portion of my company's
corporate website which is here ->  http://www.dressercouplings.com    
and I rather like making
websites and such. There is some pretty cutting edge usage of cascading 
style sheets at the site
above which made me kind of feel like an innovator for once :-)

I have a small webserver running on my Debian GNU/Linux StrongARM based 
Netwinder machine
which utilizes PHP for spiffy tricks, and I'm long overdue to rewrite 
it. I'll make a preliminary L4-Hurd
page when I do so as a prototype to run on an official server somewhere 
else. My own little box
is at -> http://www.gyrodynamic.net   but it is NAT'ted so may not work 
through some firewalls.

> By that time we have hopefully crossed a line where you can start to do
> something useful while focussing on some individual smallish sub project of
> the whole, rather than being lost in the non-existence of it.
>  
Excellent! Hey nice to hear from you again Marcus. I've been down and 
out lately. I seem to
have developed Diabetes and didn't know it so I was pretty sick for the 
last couple years. I'm feeling
a lot better now that I know what is going on and hope to get back into 
it! Currently working on my
Debian application which I should be doing right now, so I'll be going 
for now.

Later Daze!