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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2013-05-22 00:45:30 +0200
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2013-05-22 00:45:30 +0200
commite7d43cc3dc8c57138d6c4923a3b1cdb8d970a349 (patch)
tree04f67fb9eeb3458b60cf43c1fb16717202c0e7d7
parentc70fb6eb439d3e32a4f6390e65438bfa8681cc73 (diff)
An Incomplete GNU Hurd Timeline.
Per consensus from yesterday night's IRC discussion, move this from the Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 page to the history page. Also, some light editing.
-rw-r--r--contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn20
-rw-r--r--history.mdwn47
-rw-r--r--hurd/status.mdwn2
3 files changed, 51 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn
index 1c20be8b..548869c5 100644
--- a/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn
+++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn
@@ -49,24 +49,10 @@ Due to the very small number of developers,
our progress of the project has not been as fast as other successful
operating systems, but we believe to have reached [[a very decent state|hurd/status]], even with our limited resources.
-We would like to thank all the people who have worked on GNU/Hurd over the past
-decades. There were not many people at any given time (and still not many people
+We would like to thank all the people who have worked on GNU/Hurd [[over the past
+decades|history]]. There were not many people at any given time (and still not many people
today, please [[join|contributing]]!), but in the end a lot of people have
-contributed one way or the other. **Thanks everybody!**
-
-**An incomplete GNU/Hurd Timeline**
-
-- 1997: Last release of the Hurd without Debian: GNU Hurd 0.2.
-- 2002: GNU MIG 1.3, libio-based glibc, GNU Mach 1.3 (disks >= 10GiB), Hurd L4 starts, work on the transition from cthreads to pthreads starts, Hurd installation party in Heidelberg, Toronto Hurd User Group meeting, Presentation at EpX in Paris ([slides](http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/pres-en/)).
-- 2003: [Crosshurd](http://packages.debian.org/crosshurd), [LinuxTag 2003](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-hurd/2003-07/msg00029.html).
-- 2005: Hurd/L4 at Libre Software Meeting.
-- 2007: [[FOSDEM|community/meetings/fosdem_2007]], the [[critique_and_position_paper|news/2007-01-14]], [[libchannel_for_GSoC|news/2007-10-01]], [[IPv6|news/2007-10-12]], Hurd/L4 abandoned, Hurd on Xen.
-- 2008: [[5_successful_GSoC_projects|community/gsoc/2008]], [[Hurd/Viengoos|news/2008-12-12]].
-- 2009: [[GSoC_unionmount_translator|news/2009-09-30]], [[Start_of_Device_Drivers_in_Userspace|news/2009-11-30]]. 66% of the Debian packages build.
-- 2010: [Arch Hurd](http://www.archhurd.org/), [Initial Nix port](http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/hurd-master), [[DDE|news/2010-02-28]], Thesis: [[Generalizing mobility for the Hurd|news/2010-01-31]], [Hurd article in LWN](http://lwn.net/Articles/395150/), [[procfs|hurd/translator/procfs]], Talk: [It’s about Freedom](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2010/GNU-Hurd_-_Its_About_Freedom,_Or_Why_you_should_care.ogv), GSoC: Debian Installer, Hurd/Viengoos on hold. 68% of the Debian packages build.
-- 2011: [[GNU_Hurd_0.401|news/2011-04-01]], xkb, [Hurd in xkcd](http://xkcd.com/844/), Graphical Debian Installer, Plans for Debian GNU Hurd in Wheezy, Hurd [bounties](http://www.fossfactory.org/project/p276) on FOSS Factory, [[Lots of attention from the press brought lots of rumors|news/2011-q2-ps]], [Talk at GHM in Paris](http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/#outline-container-2-5) ([video](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2011/Samuel_Thibault-GNU_Hurd.ogv)), slab allocator, Continuous builds with Nix, improved build system, GSoC: [[Java|user/jkoenig/java]]. 70% of the Debian packages build.
-- 2012: Half the Linux 2.6.32 network drivers build with DDE, [Continuous testing with Nix](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-03/msg00019.html), glibc changes pushed upstream, improved debugging, memory mapping [with red-black tree](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00109.html), switch to pthreads finished, [[live-filesystem-debugging_report|news/2012-q1-q2]].
-- 2013: [Talk at FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/hurd_microkernel/).
+contributed one way or another. **Thanks everybody!**
---
diff --git a/history.mdwn b/history.mdwn
index 8cde0a33..793ca04f 100644
--- a/history.mdwn
+++ b/history.mdwn
@@ -93,3 +93,50 @@ mailing lists.
---
* [[Port_to_another_microkernel]]
+
+---
+
+# An Incomplete GNU Hurd Timeline
+
+ * 1997: GNU Hurd 0.2.
+ * 2002: GNU MIG 1.3, libio-based glibc, GNU Mach 1.3, Hurd L4 starts, work on
+ the transition from cthreads to pthreads starts, Hurd installation party in
+ Heidelberg, Toronto Hurd User Group meeting, Presentation at EpX in Paris
+ ([slides](http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/pres-en/)).
+ * 2003: [Crosshurd](http://packages.debian.org/crosshurd), [LinuxTag
+ 2003](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-hurd/2003-07/msg00029.html).
+ * 2005: Hurd/L4 at Libre Software Meeting.
+ * 2007: [[FOSDEM|community/meetings/fosdem_2007]], the [[critique and
+ position paper|news/2007-01-14]], [[libchannel for GSoC|news/2007-10-01]],
+ [[IPv6|news/2007-10-12]], Hurd/L4 abandoned, Hurd on Xen.
+ * 2008: [[Five successful GSoC projects|community/gsoc/2008]],
+ [[Hurd/Viengoos|news/2008-12-12]].
+ * 2009: [[GSoC unionmount translator|news/2009-09-30]], [[Start of Device
+ Drivers in Userspace|news/2009-11-30]]. 66% of the Debian packages build.
+ * 2010: [Arch Hurd](http://www.archhurd.org/), [Initial Nix
+ port](http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/hurd-master),
+ [[DDE|news/2010-02-28]], Thesis: [[Generalizing mobility for the
+ Hurd|news/2010-01-31]], [Hurd article in
+ LWN](http://lwn.net/Articles/395150/), [[procfs|hurd/translator/procfs]],
+ Talk: [It's about
+ Freedom](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2010/GNU-Hurd_-_Its_About_Freedom,_Or_Why_you_should_care.ogv),
+ GSoC: Debian Installer, Hurd/Viengoos on hold. 68% of the Debian packages
+ build.
+ * 2011: [[GNU Hurd 0.401|news/2011-04-01]], xkb, [Hurd in
+ xkcd](http://xkcd.com/844/), Graphical Debian Installer,
+ [[bounties|2011-05-02-foss_factory]] on FOSS Factory, [[Lots of attention
+ from the press brought lots of rumors|news/2011-q2-ps]], [Talk at GHM in
+ Paris](http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/#outline-container-2-5)
+ ([video](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2011/Samuel_Thibault-GNU_Hurd.ogv)),
+ slab allocator, Continuous builds with Nix, improved build system, GSoC:
+ [[Java|user/jkoenig/java]]. 70% of the Debian packages build.
+ * 2012: Half the Linux 2.6.32 network drivers build with DDE, [Continuous
+ testing with
+ Nix](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-03/msg00019.html),
+ improved debugging, memory mapping [with red-black
+ tree](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00109.html),
+ switch to pthreads finished, [[live-filesystem-debugging
+ report|news/2012-q1-q2]].
+ * 2013: [Talk at
+ FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/hurd_microkernel/), [[Debian
+ GNU/Hurd 2013|contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013]].
diff --git a/hurd/status.mdwn b/hurd/status.mdwn
index e4b87923..8e6b72db 100644
--- a/hurd/status.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/status.mdwn
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ GNU/Hurd 2013|contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013]].
[[hurd/running/Nix]] provides QEMU images.
That said, the last official release of the Hurd
-without the Debian parts was 0.2 done in 1997.
+without the Debian parts was 0.2 done in 1997 ([[history]]).
New official releases will be done, as soon as
the Hurd is sufficently stable and feature