From 94f5ac646db2669d42462fd92da2c4994cefe05a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 00:06:07 +0200 Subject: news/2010-05-31: Updated. Finalized. --- news/2010-05-31.mdwn | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) diff --git a/news/2010-05-31.mdwn b/news/2010-05-31.mdwn index e6fc0518..5bef328e 100644 --- a/news/2010-05-31.mdwn +++ b/news/2010-05-31.mdwn @@ -8,53 +8,59 @@ 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="2010-06-06 22:15 UTC"]] -A month of the Hurd: *dde linux26*, *thread storms*, *patches*, *new live CD* and *IRC meetings*. +A month of the Hurd: *DDE linux26*, *thread storms*, *patches*, *new live CD* and *IRC meetings*. [[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]""" else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] [[!cut id="full_news" text=""" -> This month [[Zheng_Da|user/zhengda]] +> [[Zheng_Da|user/zhengda]] > [reported](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00037.html) -> on the state of porting DDE linux26 to the Hurd, -> which can improve the GNU Hurd Hardware support a lot. -> The drivers emulated by qemu and vmware already work fine, -> but it still needs work to run on real hardware. - -> Also Sergio Lopez -> [added some patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00106.html) -> to prevent thread storms when synchronizing large pagers in ext2fs. They should improve performance when many files are accessed at the same time. - -> And Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, Carl Fredrik Hammar, Sergio Lopez -> and others developed some patches ( -> [auth](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00003.html), -> [exec](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00108.html), -> [tmpfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00076.html), -> … ) -> to fix or improve the semantics of various internal hurd servers, -> to avoid some bugs or improve performance. - -> Additionally Justus Winter created a [live CD](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00033.html) -> with an installation wizard in the spirit of the OpenBSD installer. -> He needs testers to improve it. - -> And the -> [scheduled IRC meetings for Google Summer of code](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00148.html) -> are continuing on Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30 UTC. -> If you want to catch up on them, you can have a look at the -> [channel logs](http://richtlijn.be/~larstiq/hurd/). - -> *PS: As the amount of new developments on the Hurd has increased quite a bit since the start of the ‘Month of the Hurd’, these news are only a selection of the items you can already test yourself. There’s more in our [[mailing_lists]]. The rough criterium for the Month of the Hurd is “can you already test it and can I say why it is great for the Hurd at large?” There definitely is stuff I don’t understand well enough to explain here… — [[Arne_Babenhauserheide|community/weblogs/ArneBab]]* - ------- - -* email news: In the [[mailing_lists]], especially [[bug-hurd|mailing_lists#bug-hurd]]. -* IRC contact: #hurd on freenode.net; meeting on mondays and thursdays, 10:30 UTC ([logs](http://richtlijn.be/~larstiq/hurd/)). +> on the state of his ongoing work of porting DDE linux26 to the Hurd, which is +> meant to improve the GNU/Hurd hardware support. The devices as emulated by +> QEMU and VMware already work fine, but he's still seeking help for testing on +> real hardware. + +> Sergio López published +> [patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00059.html) +> as well as [readily-usable +> packages](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00106.html) +> to prevent thread storms in ext2fs when synchronizing large pagers. This +> should improve system performance and stability. + +> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Sergio López developed further patches (for +> example: +> [exec](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00108.html), +> [tmpfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00077.html)) to +> fix or improve the various internal Hurd servers, and discussed them with +> other Hurd developers. + +> Justus Winter [created a live +> CD](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00033.html) with an +> installation wizard in the spirit of the OpenBSD installer. He needs testers +> to help improve it. + +> Ludovic Courtès informed that he has added support for [cross-building +> packages from GNU/Linux to +> GNU/Hurd](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00105.html) +> to the Nix package manager, as well as doing [continuous cross-building of +> the GNU Hurd +> itself](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00111.html), +> and [glibc](http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2010-05/msg00049.html). + +> The [[regular IRC meetings|irc#regular_meetings]] for [[Google Summer of Code +> students|community/gsoc]], their mentors, and any other interested parties +> [are +> continuing](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00148.html) +> on Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30 UTC, as Olaf Buddenhagen reported. If you +> want to catch up, have a look at the [#hurd channel +> logs](http://richtlijn.be/~larstiq/hurd/). + +> As always in the *Month of the Hurd*, these news blurbs are only a selection +> of what happened in the last month. There's always more to be found on our +> [[mailing_lists]], especially [[mailing_lists/bug-hurd]]. """]] -- cgit v1.2.3