From 6876a9b22c2a58f5c40b60104dd2e4012cb2aae2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: arnebab Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:47:29 +0200 Subject: Weblog: wrote latest changes entry. --- .../ArneBab/2008-06-17-latest-changes-in-the-hurd.mdwn | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 community/weblogs/ArneBab/2008-06-17-latest-changes-in-the-hurd.mdwn (limited to 'community') diff --git a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/2008-06-17-latest-changes-in-the-hurd.mdwn b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/2008-06-17-latest-changes-in-the-hurd.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b91cfd20 --- /dev/null +++ b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/2008-06-17-latest-changes-in-the-hurd.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +In the past few months the Hurd got quite many commits. + +I want to write a bit about the changes they brought, and what they mean to the Hurd. + +If some of my comments seem too 'simple' to you, just ignore them :) + +First we got many Bug fixes from Samuel Thibault, mainly in libpthread (multithreading), ext2fs and libdiskfs (both filesystem interaction). + +Then hurd-l4 (the port of the Hurd on the L4 kernel) seems to get quite much love by Neal H. Walfield (neal) at the moment. +Quite much is saying a bit to little: hurd-l4 looks steamingly active in the commits :) + +And there is the PyHurd project. It attempts to create a full binding to the GNU/Hurd API, so people should someday be able to, for example, create translators in Python. + +There's been more - a lot more in fact, but much of it is above my coding horizon, and this entry shall end someplace (it's late - too late :) ). + +Best wishes, +Arne + -- cgit v1.2.3