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+A month of the Hurd: *presentations*, *procfs*, *Arch* and *need*. 
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+> This month you can get a lot of insight into the Hurd very easily by watching 
+> the presentations from Neal Walfield and Michael Bank on Hurd 
+> at the GHM (GNU Hackers' Meeting) in denhaag: [“It’s About Freedom”](http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2010/denhaag/) 
+> ([video](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2010/GNU-Hurd_-_Its_About_Freedom,_Or_Why_you_should_care.ogv))
+> and Debian GNU/Hurd at the DebConf10:
+> [“Past. Present. And Future?”](http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/595.en.html) 
+> ([slides](http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/attachments/159_debian-hurd.pdf), 
+> [video](http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2010/debconf10/high/1117_Debian_GNUHurd.ogv)), 
+> including a very nice nod towards the main forces who are presently 
+> pushing the Hurd forward *(→ further 
+> [[media_appearances]] of the Hurd).*
+
+> Also Jeremie Koenig (among other things)
+> [rewrote procfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00165.html) 
+> for the [[debian installer Summer of Code project|user/jkoenig]]:  
+> *“I have successfully tested it with most of the Linux procps utilities,
+> as well as busybox and htop. It seems to be stable, not too slow, and 
+> it stays under 1.5M in resident size.”*  
+> To get and test it:
+
+> >    git clone http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git  
+> >    cd hurd  
+> >    git remote add jk git://github.com/jeremie-koenig/hurd.git  
+> >    git fetch jk  
+> >    git checkout jk/procfs  *# Add "-b procfs" to create a local branch.*  
+> >    make procfs  
+> >    settrans -ag /proc procfs/procfs --compatible  
+> >    *# you now have your new procfs*
+
+<!--note: this shows off the ease with which you can test deeper changes in the Hurd, so I think it warrants the space it gets.-->
+
+> Thomas Schwinge 
+> [added more information](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00066.html) 
+> into the wiki, notably open issues, to facilitate coordination, and started converting 
+> [hurdextras cvs repositories ](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/) into the 
+> [hurd git repos](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd) and the 
+> [incubator repository](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/). 
+> All of these should make it easier for new contributors to join in, and 
+> thanks to distributed version control, you can start hacking at once. 
+
+> And the Arch Hurd team 
+> [released a new LiveCD](http://www.archhurd.org/news/17) 
+> ([changes](http://www.barrucadu.co.uk/arch-hurd-livecd-i686-core-2010-08-25iso))
+> which is a lot more stable that the previous one 
+> (including packages for a more stable X, now at Xorg 1.9), added a 
+> [Planet Arch Hurd](http://planet.archhurd.org/) 
+> which aggregates the Arch Hurd Blogs and packaged everything you need for a 
+> [HAMP](http://www.archhurd.org/news/18/) system: 
+> Hurd, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Sidenote: you can now 
+> [flattr](http://flattr.com/thing/44395/Arch-Hurd) 
+> Arch Hurd, if you want to support the project. 
+> Also for 
+> [Arch Hurd](http://archhurd.org), 
+> Diego Nieto Cid brought the console-driver-xkb 
+> [up to date](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00012.html). 
+
+> Finally we had a short review of what the current Hurd contributors 
+> [still need](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00029.html) 
+> ([summary](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00087.html)) 
+> to use the Hurd for most of their day-to-day tasks. 
+
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