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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2013-05-14 23:28:22 +0200
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2013-05-14 23:28:22 +0200
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contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next: Split hardware compatibility topics.
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@@ -63,13 +63,15 @@ ensures that all data in the filesystem gets written to disk, as well as
support in [[hurd/translator/procfs]] for
[statfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00005.html).
-Thomas Schwinge and Samuel Thibault improved the hardware compatibility of the
-Hurd by fixing [some
-errors](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00077.html) which
-caused a miscalculation of the size of medium sized disks reporting 15 heads
-instead of 16 and adding [network-card
+Thomas Schwinge improved the hardware compatibility of the Hurd by [identifying
+and
+backporting]](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00077.html)
+some changes contained in Linux 2.0.40, which prevents data corruption due to a
+miscalculation of the size of medium-sized disks reporting 15 heads instead of
+16.
+Samuel Thibault improved [network card
detection](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/07/msg00011.html)
-network-card detection on busses other than 0 and 2.
+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