From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA05784 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:57:00 -0700 Message-Id: <200101160501.VAA11005@milano.cup.hp.com> To: Josiah Carlson Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] website In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:25:15 PST." <3A63B10BBB.D2B5JCARLSON@smtp.macalester.edu> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:01:06 -0800 From: Grant Grundler List-ID: Josiah Carlson wrote: ... > 4. The fact that parisc-linux.org is overseen by the HP corporation, and > that they are unwilling to change the layout and such of the web page. Wrong on two counts: HP does not run the web site. AFAIK, HP helped fund the parisc-linux site developement and approved it's current layout/use of HP logo. No one said anything about future developement. This issue is still under discussion and Mathew's input has been heard. > Though we've got to remember > that we're dealing with a corporation, with a structure, with > supervisors. Who are just people. Some need to learn new things they don't yet know. > If there's one thing that I've learned from working at any > workplace, it's that supervisors sometimes know less than a 2 year old > and sometimes are twice as stubborn. Funny. None of my supervisors have ever fit that description. Maybe I'm just lucky. > not only am I not privy to the code, Wrong again. Source is visible at http://puffin.external.hp.com/cgi-bin/cvsview or through CVS. Just like the linux kernel. > but I doubt that HP would > accept any changes if I had any. (more on that later) You are right - HP won't. Mostly because HP doesn't "own" it. Anyone with write access to the CVS repository can change it. Only about 1/5th of the people with such write access are HP employees. > Currently there is not a whole lot of info on > getting said machines running on the main site. 1) It's because owners of said machines haven't *written* a web page (or FAQ) specific to each platform. 2) Such a page would fairly quickly be stale. The long term goal is to have one process/kernel for all machines. (64- vs 32-bit kernels is the only issue that won't go away.) > I have to document the steps > required because someone in the future may have to do it again where I'm > at, and it could also be posted to the parisc-linux.org site for other > people. Exactly. Post it here and people can find it by searching the mail archive. (That's probably another FAQ, Alex?). grant Grant Grundler Unix Systems Enablement Lab +1.408.447.7253