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+[[!meta date="2010-01-31 00:00 UTC"]]
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+A month of the Hurd: *first DDE driver*, *libpciaccess upstream*, *Fosdem results* and *GSoC meetings again*. 
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+
+> This month saw the first running and testable 
+> [[DDE_driver_by_Zheng_Da|user/zhengda]], 
+> with which he begins to reap the benefits of porting DDE to Hurd, 
+> since [[DDE|dde]] allows to use current Linux drivers for Mach and L4. 
+
+> Also Samuel Thibault 
+> [pushed libpciaccess to Xorg](http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2010-January/048801.html) 
+> which adds support in the Xserver (x86) 
+> “for OSes that do not have a PCI interface, 
+> tinkering with I/O ports, and makes use of it on GNU/Hurd.”
+
+> Additionally we saw the talks on the Hurd in the Alt-OS devroom at 
+> Fosdem: [Why is Anyone Still Working on the GNU Hurd?](http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/altos_hurd) and [Porting KGI graphics drivers from Linux to GNU Hurd](http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/altos_kgi_hurd). 
+
+> In [Mikels words](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-03/msg00014.html): 
+
+> > The room was full and people were "standing-up" for the talk. Some people
+> > couldn't even enter the room (+20?).
+> > 
+> > Antrik made a good job. Was nice for the crowd to see Hurd running X,
+> > slow but working.
+> > 
+> > The unique problem might have been the short time available. The machine
+> > needed to be fsck-ed losing some time, which could have been be used at the end
+> > for Q&A which was quite interesting.
+
+> Sadly we couldn't yet upload notes from the talks - 
+> as soon as these are availble, you should get notice here.
+> Also they should be linked on the Fosdem pages we linked to above.
+
+> And it is time for the [[Google_Summer_of_Code|community/gsoc]] again, so 
+> [we started our weekly GSoC IRC meetings](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-02/msg00040.html) in which we coordinate the GSoC projects. 
+> [[2008|community/gsoc/2008]] the GNU Hurd had 5 successful projects, 
+> 2009 saw [[another_one|user/scolobb]], 
+> and we hope to make it 5 projects again this year. 
+> The last few years brought 
+> [libchannel](http://code.google.com/soc/2007/gnu/appinfo.html?csaid=44FB3FD69C665A08), 
+> **lisp bindings**, **dtrace**, [[nsmux|translator/nsmux]], 
+> **network virtualization** (which led to the DDE drivers), **procfs** 
+> and [[unionmount|hurd/translator/unionmount]], 
+> and we have [[dozens_of_ideas|community/gsoc/project_ideas]] 
+> for innovative projects this year. 
+
+> So if you're interested in working on the GNU Hurd,
+> or want to help with coordinating (or simply want to be up to date), 
+> please come and join in (currently via [[IRC]] every Wednesday at 11:00 UTC). 
+> Also we'd be glad to have more eyes on polishing 
+> [[our_application/community/gsoc/organization_application]]. 
+
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