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@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ else="
[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-It is with huge pleasure that the Hurd project announces the
+It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd port announces the
**release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2013**.
This is a snapshot of Debian sid at the time of the Debian
Wheezy release (May 2013), so it is mostly based on Wheezy. It is *not* an
@@ -30,16 +30,13 @@ official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release.
The installation ISO images can be downloaded from
[[Debian Ports|http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/]]
-with the usual 3 Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, or DVD. A pre-installed disk image
-is also available to make trying Debian GNU/Hurd even easier.
+with the usual 3 Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, or DVD. Besides the friendly
+Debian installer, a pre-installed disk image is also available to make trying
+Debian GNU/Hurd even easier.
-Yes, really. This time it is not a joke like the
-[[0.401 release|news/2011-04-01]].
-
-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 that we now reached a very good
-state.
+Debian GNU/Hurd it's currently available for the i386 architecture with more
+than 10.000 software packages available (> 75% of the Debian archive, and more
+to come!).
Please make sure to read the
[[configuration information|http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install]],
@@ -47,6 +44,11 @@ the [[FAQ|faq]],
and the [[translator primer|hurd/documentation/translator_primer]]
for a start.
+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 good
+state, even with the 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
today, please [[join|contributing]]!), but in the end a lot of people have
@@ -58,13 +60,13 @@ contributed one way or the other. **Thanks everybody!**
- 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.
-- 2008: [[5_successful_GSoC_projects|news/2008-09-11]], Hurd on Xen via PAE, [[Hurd/Viengoos|news/2008-12-12]].
+- 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|news/2008-09-11]], [[Hurd/Viengoos|news/2008-12-12]]
- 2009: [[GSoC_unionmount_translator|news/2009-09-30]], [[Start_of_Device_Drivers_in_Userspace|news/2009-11-30]].
-- 2010: [Arch Hurd](http://www.archhurd.org/), [Initial Nix port](http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/hurd-master), [[DDE|news/2010-02-28]], slow but working Xorg, 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, Hurd on Xen as DomU works.
+- 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.
- 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]].
-- 2012: Half the Linux 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), pthreads work, [[live-filesystem-debugging_report|news/2012-q1-q2]].
-- 2013:
+- 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), pthreads work, [[live-filesystem-debugging_report|news/2012-q1-q2]].
+- 2013: [Talk at FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/hurd_microkernel/)
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