[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta date="2010-07-08 14:00 UTC"]] A month of the Hurd: *Debian Installer*, *clustered page-in*, and *a bunch of bug fixing*. [[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]""" else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] [[!cut id="full_news" text=""" > A bunch of patches have hit the mailing lists and source code repositories: > Jérémie Koenig posted a [preliminary > patch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00047.html) to > add initrd (initial ramdisk) support in GNU Mach for his [[Google Summer of > Code|community/gsoc]] 2010 project: [[Debian Installer|jkoenig]]. With this > patch, and some other patches that are still in flux, he ended up being able > to install a [[Debian GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]] system using the Debian > Installer -- which is the goal of his project. Patches being *in flux* means > that there's still work left to be done to properly solve some issues, so > there's no need to worry that Jérémie wouldn't have any work left until the > GSoC ends. > Karim Allah Amed came up with the [first > patch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00023.html) for > porting the clustered paging-in code from OSF Mach to GNU Mach, which should > improve the virtual memory performance of the Hurd. > Emilio Pozuelo Monfort got a bug in [glibc > fixed](http://sources.redhat.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=2a50c07836d2750baf70442f8f760bf6cd43b3af), > which unblocks a problem we've seen in [coreutils' > `ln`](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29655), and also continued to make > progress on other grounds. > Zheng Da > [began](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-06/msg00003.html) > [to](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-06/msg00005.html) > [commit](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-06/msg00014.html) > patches to make his [[DDE project|zhengda]] support block device drivers, > apart from fixing some other issues, too. > Samuel Thibault [fixed memory > leaks](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-06/msg00018.html) > in [[`pfinet`|hurd/translator/pfinet]], which is the Hurd's TCP/IP networking > unit. Even though that a crashed `pfinet` [[server|hurd/translator]] will be > restarted upon its next use, having it eat up all system memory is to be > avoided, of course -- and is corrected with these patches. > Carl Fredrik Hammar submitted patches to improve the stability of the auth > server ([rendezvous port > death](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00003.html) / > [invalid rendezvous > ports](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00019.html)). > Lastly, if you haven't seen it already: Richard Hillesley has posted an > article [*GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost > promise*](http://www.h-online.com/open/features/GNU-HURD-Altered-visions-and-lost-promise-1030942.html) > that caused [quite](http://lwn.net/Articles/394295/) > [a](http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ckjt2/gnu_hurd_altered_visions_and_lost_promise/) > [bunch](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ckjud/the_hurd_altered_visions_and_lost_promise/) > [of](http://www.osnews.com/comments/23511) > [discussion](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1474941) -- some of it valid > and constructive criticism, some of it less so. If *you* want to come in > contact with us GNU Hurd developers, there are [[numerous options to contact > us|contact_us]]! """]]