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A month of the Hurd: *dde linux26*, *thread storms*, *patches*, *new live CD* and *IRC meetings*. 
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> This month [[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/). 

> <small>*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]]*</small>

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* 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/)).

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