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A month of the Hurd: *network in userspace* and *grub2 from hurd*. 
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> 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+20091130-1)
> [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. 
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