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@@ -8,13 +8,12 @@ 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]]."]]"""]]
-The GNU Hurd project has successfully participated in
-the [Google Summer of Code
-2008](http://code.google.com/soc/2008/hurd/about.html)!
+The GNU Hurd project has successfully participated in the
+[Google Summer of Code 2008](http://code.google.com/soc/2008/hurd/about.html)!
All in all we had five students working on a diverse selection of five projects
-from our [[ideas_list|gsoc/project_ideas]]. All of the projects were more or
-less successful:
+from our [[ideas_list|gsoc/project_ideas]]. The students as well as the mentors did a
+great job!
## Projects
@@ -23,10 +22,10 @@ less successful:
project quite as steady as the other students (except for a two week
vacation). The project however was hampered by various misunderstandings,
wrong assumptions, and several major redesigns during the course of the work
- -- which is probably more our fault than the student's. In the end, he was
- able to complete nsmux (the main namespace proxy handling the magic filename
- lookups, running dynamic translators on demand); however, he still works on
- finishing the translator stack filtering, necessary to implement some of the
+ -- which is probably more our fault than the student's. In the end, though, he
+ completed nsmux (the main namespace proxy handling the magic filename
+ lookups, running dynamic translators on demand); he still works on
+ finishing the translator stack filtering necessary to implement some of the
desired functionality (accessing files while skipping existing translators).
* [[Zheng_Da|da]] worked on **network virtualization** and some related topics. In
@@ -34,7 +33,7 @@ less successful:
work -- finishing not only the ethernet multiplexer and filter translators,
which form the core of his project, but also a glibc patch to allow
overriding the standard socket servers with environment variables; the
- devnode translator and a pfinet patch to allow accesing network devices
+ devnode translator and a pfinet patch to allow accessing network devices
through device files; support for setting the network device in promiscuous
mode in gnumach; a pfinet patch to use BPF for the packet filtering instead
of the old Mach packet filters, and also to set a proper filter rule that