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-rw-r--r--faq/support/0-software.mdwn11
-rw-r--r--faq/support/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn7
-rw-r--r--faq/support/64-bit.mdwn (renamed from faq/support/64bit.mdwn)13
-rw-r--r--faq/support/fuse_support.mdwn3
-rw-r--r--faq/support/ram_limit.mdwn2
-rw-r--r--faq/support/sata_disk_drives.mdwn6
-rw-r--r--faq/support/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn11
7 files changed, 32 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/faq/support/0-software.mdwn b/faq/support/0-software.mdwn
index 4726147c..324dbbef 100644
--- a/faq/support/0-software.mdwn
+++ b/faq/support/0-software.mdwn
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,
+2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+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]]."]]"""]]
+
[[!meta title="What software is available for GNU?"]]
* Most (3/4) packages from [Debian](http://www.debian.org/) [GNU/Linux](http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html) which aren't linux-specific ([Packages That Won't Be Ported](http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-devel-debian)) are expected to work on GNU/Hurd too. See the database in <http://packages.debian.org/>. Notably, [GNOME](http://www.gnome.org), and [KDE](http://www.kde.org) work. See the [[porting/guidelines]] document for some common build problems and their solutions.
diff --git a/faq/support/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn b/faq/support/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn
index 8d921b07..3d502a17 100644
--- a/faq/support/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn
+++ b/faq/support/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2013 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
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]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
[[!meta title="Is there still a 2 GiB Partition Limit?"]]
diff --git a/faq/support/64bit.mdwn b/faq/support/64-bit.mdwn
index 5b899b55..ab95d9d0 100644
--- a/faq/support/64bit.mdwn
+++ b/faq/support/64-bit.mdwn
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -9,9 +8,9 @@ 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]]."]]"""]]
-[[!meta title="Is there a 64bit version?"]]
+[[!meta title="Is there a 64-bit version?"]]
-There are currently no plan for 64bit userland, but there are plans for 64bit
-kernelland + 32bit userland, which will notably permit to efficiently make use
-of more than 2GiB memory and provide 4GiB userland addressing space. Work on
-this is currently in branches in GNU Mach.
+There are currently no plan for 64-bit userland, but there are plans for 64-bit
+kernelland with 32-bit userland, which will notably permit to efficiently make
+use of more than 2 GiB memory and provide 4 GiB userland addressing space.
+Work on this is currently in branches for GNU Mach.
diff --git a/faq/support/fuse_support.mdwn b/faq/support/fuse_support.mdwn
index 8867d954..33e877ce 100644
--- a/faq/support/fuse_support.mdwn
+++ b/faq/support/fuse_support.mdwn
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
diff --git a/faq/support/ram_limit.mdwn b/faq/support/ram_limit.mdwn
index 4043203e..0fa27c2e 100644
--- a/faq/support/ram_limit.mdwn
+++ b/faq/support/ram_limit.mdwn
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
[[!meta title="830 MiB RAM Limit"]]
-Just like any 32bit OS without bad tricks, GNU Mach can not cope well with lots
+Just like any 32-bit OS without bad tricks, GNU Mach can not cope well with lots
of memory. Latest versions of the Debian `gnumach` package will limit themselves
to around 1.7 GiB of memory. If you want more, you can twiddle the `VM_MAX_ADDRESS`
limit between kernelland and userland in `i386/include/mach/i386/vm_param.h`.
diff --git a/faq/support/sata_disk_drives.mdwn b/faq/support/sata_disk_drives.mdwn
index 2edaa610..69470f10 100644
--- a/faq/support/sata_disk_drives.mdwn
+++ b/faq/support/sata_disk_drives.mdwn
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
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]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
[[!meta title="Are SATA disk drives supported?"]]
diff --git a/faq/support/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn b/faq/support/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn
index 8702470a..2c31c22b 100644
--- a/faq/support/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn
+++ b/faq/support/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -8,12 +8,13 @@ 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]]."]]"""]]
-[[!meta title=" Could it be possible to have a system installation where you can
-dual-boot using either the [[Linux]] kernel, or the GNU Hurd, so that
-everything but the kernel is shared?]]
+[[!meta title="Sharing the userspace between GNU Hurd and the Linux kernel"]]
Given that both Linux and GNU Hurd are using the [[ELF]] binary
-format, this could indeed be made possible, if all programs agreed to rely on
+format, it is in theory possible to have a system installation where you can
+dual-boot using either the [[Linux]] kernel, or the GNU Hurd, so that
+everything but the kernel is shared.
+For this, all programs need to agree to rely on
only one abstraction layer, for example the standard C library ([[glibc]]).
(Additionally, for example for [[system call]]s that are not covered by glibc
calls, you'd need to be able to reliably trap and emulate these.) However,