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diff --git a/news/2009-10-31.mdwn b/news/2009-10-31.mdwn
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--- a/news/2009-10-31.mdwn
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@@ -8,25 +8,42 @@ 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 date="2009-10-31 00:00 UTC"]]
+[[!meta date="2009-11-02 22:39 UTC"]]
 
-[[!meta updated="2009-10-31 00:00 UTC"]]
-
-A month of the Hurd: *New LiveCDs* and further *git migration*. 
+A month of the Hurd: new *installation CDs*, further *Git migration*,
+*porting*.
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 [[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-> This month Philip Charles created a new [LiveCD](http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/current/) for the Hurd, 
-> which brings us a big step towards installing the Hurd from the Hurd
-> (without the need of a Linux based installer). 
-> If you enjoy testing stuff, please give it a try. 
-> 
-> Also Thomas Schwinge migrated the [nsmux](http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/hurd/translator/nsmux/)
-> and cl-hurd *(lisp bindings)* repos into 
-> our [git repositories on Savannah](https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=hurd),
-> making them easier to access for other contributors.
-> 
+> This month Philip Charles created a new [installation
+> CD](http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/current/), the [L
+> series](http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/current/README-L1-disc-set),
+> for the Hurd, which brings us a big step towards installing the Hurd from the
+> Hurd (without the need of a Linux-based installer).  If you enjoy testing
+> stuff, please give it a try.
+
+> On the same front, Michael Banck uploaded a new version of
+> [crosshurd](http://packages.debian.org/sid/crosshurd) that makes it again
+> possible to use this package for creating a GNU/Hurd system image directly
+> from Debian unstable packages.
+
+> Also, Thomas Schwinge migrated Sergiu Ivanov's [[hurd/translator/nsmux]],
+> [[Flávio Cruz|flaviocruz]]' cl-hurd *(clisp bindings)*, and Carl Fredrik
+> Hammar [[hurd/libchannel]] repositories into our new [*incubator* Git
+> repository](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/), making
+> them easier to access for other contributors.
+
+> Our bunch of porters continued to make further Debian packages usable on
+> GNU/Hurd: Pino Toscano worked on a lot of packages, and Wesley W. Terpstra
+> made [mlton](http://packages.debian.org/sid/mlton) build -- together with
+> Samuel Thibault, who first had to enhance [[GNU
+> Mach|microkernel/mach/gnumach]] to support allocating more than 1 GiB of RAM
+> to one user-space process, which mlton needs.
 
+> On the go, Samuel also fixed a number of other bugs here and there, for
+> example together with Eric Blake and Roland McGrath hashed out a difficile
+> issue in the filesystem servers regarding POSIX conformance and system
+> stability.
 """]]
diff --git a/news/2009-11-30.mdwn b/news/2009-11-30.mdwn
index 5c6d3e0f..86a575bc 100644
--- a/news/2009-11-30.mdwn
+++ b/news/2009-11-30.mdwn
@@ -8,28 +8,44 @@ 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 date="2009-11-30 00:00 UTC"]]
+[[!meta date="2009-12-03 11:00 UTC"]]
 
-[[!meta updated="2009-11-30 00:00 UTC"]]
-
-A month of the Hurd: *network in userspace* and *grub2 from hurd*. 
+A month of the Hurd: initial work on *network device drivers in user space*,
+*GRUB 2*. 
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 [[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-> This month Zheng Da ported the pcnet32 driver into user space 
-> and did some preliminary 
-> [performance tests](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-11/msg00144.html). 
-> The test results were mostly on par with the in-kernel driver, so they show 
-> that moving networking on the Hurd into user space can be done
-> without losing (much) performance. 
-> 
-> Also thanks to Samuel Thibault, the latest grub2 package (1.97+20091125-1)
-> [supports native installation](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2009/11/msg00095.html) 
-> from GNU/Hurd itself. Grub was originally designed
-> [to allow booting of GNU/Hurd systems](http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#History), 
-> so this step brings it closer to its original purpose again. 
-> 
+> This month [[Zheng Da|zhengda]], our [[former Google Summer of Code student
+> working on network virtualization and some related
+> topics|community/gsoc/2008]], published the code for the pcnet32 device
+> driver that he had modified to run as a user-space process instead of inside
+> the kernel, and posted some preliminary [performance benchmark
+> results](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-11/msg00144.html).
+> The test results are mostly on par with the in-kernel driver, so they show
+> that moving the lower-layer parts of the networking stack, the device drivers
+> themselves, into user space can be done without losing (much) performance.
+> Given this encouraging start, work is going on to explore whether the [Device
+> Driver Environment](http://wiki.tudos.org/DDE/DDEKit) that has been created
+> for L4-based systems can be used for [providing GNU/Hurd systems with device
+> drivers](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-11/msg00241.html)
+> that (a) are more recent than our current ones, (b) support classes of
+> devices that [[we don't support so
+> far|microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list]], and (c) are
+> running as (possibly separate, fault-isolated) user-space processes.
+
+> Thanks to Samuel Thibault, the latest Debian GRUB 2 package (1.97+20091130-1)
+> [supports native
+> installation](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2009/11/msg00095.html) from
+> GNU/Hurd itself -- booting GNU/Hurd systems with GRUB has always been
+> working, but until now it wasn't possible to *install* GRUB from a GNU/Hurd
+> system.  GNU GRUB has originally been written [for booting GNU/Hurd
+> systems](http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#History), so this
+> step completes its original purpose.
 
+> Samuel also continued to work on preparing the [[Xen branch of GNU
+> Mach|microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen]] for being merged with the mainline
+> code, and he fixed a kernel panic in the kernel's floating point
+> support code.
 """]]