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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2013-05-14 23:45:58 +0200
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2013-05-14 23:45:58 +0200
commit79995168b00130b0c36670a04ff3a78a03c83c84 (patch)
treeecd28a456d51f1ac14de065e73368a5a67ce5cd2
parent1185bbb0e0bf5bad67708efd3ffad22e605e5277 (diff)
contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next: Miscellaneous clean-up.
-rw-r--r--contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn30
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn
index 54f20062..a7dd6d05 100644
--- a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn
+++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn
@@ -13,10 +13,8 @@ Will be set by tschwinge when publishing.
[[!meta date="YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC"]]
-->
-<!-- This is just a skeleton. Use it to create a new QotH. -->
-
-A quarter of the Hurd, Q3/Q4 of 2012: *pthreads*, *installation CDs*,
-*hardware* and *porting*.
+Two quarters of the Hurd, Q3 and Q4 of 2012: *libpthread conversion*,
+*installation CDs*, *hardware compatibility*, *porting*.
[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
else="
@@ -53,7 +51,7 @@ Also Samuel Thibault
[provided](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00052.html)
new [installation
CDs](http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/current)
-and a new [qemu image](http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/).
+and a new [QEMU image](http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/).
Additionally to using pthreads, these now offer keyboard layout configuration.
In [[glibc]],
@@ -75,21 +73,21 @@ Samuel Thibault improved [network card
detection](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/07/msg00011.html)
on busses other than 0 and 2.
-And several people ported and fixed packages, further increasing the number of
-debian packages which work on the Hurd: *Svante Signell* ported
+Several people ported and fixed packages, further increasing the number of
+[[hurd/running/Debian]] packages that work on the Hurd: *Svante Signell* ported
[mlocate-0.25](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/07/msg00015.html),
[gnat-gps](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/07/msg00011.html),
[libpst](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/08/msg00039.html),
[libetpan](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/08/msg00046.html),
[spl](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/09/msg00004.html),
[dovecot](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/09/msg00007.html),
-[xplc](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/08/msg00054.html) and
+[xplc](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/08/msg00054.html),
[parrot](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/08/msg00056.html),
[x86info](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/09/msg00008.html),
[atlas](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/09/msg00009.html),
-[rrdtool](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/09/msg00011.html) and
-[gdb](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/09/msg00018.html). Also he
-fixed [yodl](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/08/msg00030.html), fixed
+[rrdtool](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/09/msg00011.html),
+[gdb](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/09/msg00018.html),
+[yodl](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/08/msg00030.html), and fixed
[ntpdate](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/12/msg00002.html) to work
again and
[improved](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00062.html)
@@ -102,13 +100,13 @@ stdout](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-10/msg00046.html),
[ulimit](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00034.html),
[glibc](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00029.html) which
among others improve POSIX conformance, making it easier to write programs
-which work on the Hurd and GNU/Linux. And he made the test pass for [FIFO
+which work on GNU/Hurd and GNU/Linux. And he made the test pass for [FIFO
sockets](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-09/msg00053.html) with
mknod and
[added](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-09/msg00005.html) a
-size parameter to tmpfs for easier usage in scripts and a [version suffix
+size parameter to [[hurd/translator/tmpfs]] and a [version suffix
option](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-10/msg00009.html) for
-gnumach configure. *Cyril Roelandt* fixed a
+GNU Mach's configure script. *Cyril Roelandt* fixed a
[ps](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00012.html) bug, a
documentation typo [in
ps](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-10/msg00032.html) and a
@@ -119,7 +117,7 @@ procfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-10/msg00025.html).
compilation error with older GCC versions due to duplicate type definition.
*Ole Streicher* fixed a bug in the Makefile of ftools-fv which was
[exposed](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/10/msg00059.html) by testing
-on Hurd. And *Samuel Thibault*
+on Hurd. *Samuel Thibault*
[removed](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/12/msg00005.html) the
out-of-date floppy-warnings in the debian installer.
@@ -142,6 +140,4 @@ define interfaces for implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the
services a traditional operating system kernel provides. [[More
detailed|microkernel/mach/gnumach]].
-<!--see [[contributing/web_pages/news/writing_the_qoth]] for additional information on writing the QotH.-->
-
"""]]