news/2010-07-31: Add ``Thanks, Phil!'' section. Rework, and finalize.

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-A month of the Hurd: *debian installer*, *compatibility*, *make dist* and *newssites*. 
+A month of the Hurd: *Thanks, Phil!*, *Debian Installer*, *compatibility*, and
+*LWN article*.
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-> This month Jérémie Koenig got the 
-> [Debian installer (d-i) for the Hurd](http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-installer/) into
-> basic working state with a simple 
-> [4 step installation guide](http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-installer/README.txt)
->  ([status mail](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/msg00158.html)). 
-> This gets us a big step towards easy installation and automated image creation. 
-> You can track Jérémie’s progress on his [[user_page|user/jkoenig]]. 
-
-> Also Emilio Pozuelo Monfort worked on improving the compatibility with 
-> third party programs via 
-> [changes to exec](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/msg00141.html)
-> and added support to 
-> [send file descriptors over Unix sockets](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/msg00145.html). 
-> Both will help getting more packages to compile and run in the Hurd. 
-
-> Additionally Ludovic Courtès 
-> [fixed make dist](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/msg00098.html) 
-> in console-client which allows easy tarball creation for uploading to ftp.gnu.org.
+> 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
+> 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/).