[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant 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="2010-08-10 17:30 UTC"]] A month of the Hurd: *Thanks, Phil!*, *Debian Installer*, *compatibility*, and *LWN article*. [[!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=""" > Philip Charles, our 72 years old provider of Debian GNU/Hurd installation CDs > [has now resigned](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/07/msg00020.html) > from that position. This has lead to a flood of [public thank-you > responses](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/07/msg00020.html#00021), > and surely yet more of those have been sent privately. Phil, thanks again > for providing the many installation images you've started producing [nearly > ten years ago](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2000/08/msg00249.html)! -- > oh, the joy of (not) uploading CD-size images using a 56k modem... -- and > that have been the first choice for many of us to get a [[Debian > GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]] system installed. > On the other hand, there's no need to worry about these news: Jérémie Koenig > got the [Debian Installer for the > Hurd](http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-installer/) into a basically working > state; there is a simple [four step installation > guide](http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-installer/README.txt). This brings us > a big step forward towards easy installation of Debian GNU/Hurd and automated > image creation. You can track Jérémie's progress on his [[user > page|jkoenig]]. > Emilio Pozuelo Monfort also made progress with his Google Summer of Code > work. For example, he posted a new iteration of his proposed [changes to > exec](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/msg00141.html) as > well as he added support for [sending file descriptors over Unix > sockets](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/msg00145.html). > These patches add features and improve compatibility to other systems, and > thus help to get more software packages to work as expected on GNU/Hurd > systems. > Ludovic Courtès [fixed `make > dist`](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/threads.html#00107), > which allows for easy tarball creation of the GNU Hurd sources. > We've been in the news [[last month|2010-06-30]] -- and this month yet again: > LWN posted a well-researched article on the status of the Hurd: Koen > Vervloesem: [*The Hurd: GNU's quest for the perfect > kernel*](http://lwn.net/Articles/395150/). """]]