Merge branch 'master' of braunbox:~hurd-web/hurd-web

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn
index c56f6016..e5bbaea1 100644
--- a/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn
+++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn
@@ -33,10 +33,10 @@ official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release.
 The installation ISO images can be downloaded from
 [[Debian Ports|http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/]]
 with the usual 3 Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, or DVD. Besides the friendly
-Debian installer, a pre-installed disk image is also available to make trying
-Debian GNU/Hurd even easier.
+Debian installer, a pre-installed disk image is also available, making it even easier to try
+Debian GNU/Hurd.
 
-Debian GNU/Hurd it's currently available for the i386 architecture with more
+Debian GNU/Hurd is currently available for the i386 architecture with more
 than 10.000 software packages available (> 75% of the Debian archive, and more
 to come!).
 
diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn
index c7b1dbda..80059025 100644
--- a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn
+++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ else="
 
 [[!cut id="full_news" text="""
 
-At the end of the last 2 quarters, Samuel Thibault pushed the [pthread patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00088.html) from Vicente Hernando Ara, Barry de Freese, Thomas Schwinge, Richard Braun and Samuel and others to the different upstream packages, finally enabling modern pthreads for the Hurd, which makes it possible to implement full Hurd bindings for languages which require pthreads, so for example [PyHurd](http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pyhurd/) can profit from the Hurd libraries instead of having to rely on low-level Mach bindings to implement Hurd features like translators. 
+At the end of the last 2 quarters, Samuel Thibault pushed the [pthread patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00088.html) from Vicente Hernando Ara, Barry de Freese, Thomas DiModica, Thomas Schwinge, Richard Braun and Samuel and others to the different upstream packages, finally enabling modern pthreads for the Hurd, which makes it possible to implement full Hurd bindings for languages which require pthreads. So for example [PyHurd](http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pyhurd/) can profit from the Hurd libraries instead of having to rely on low-level Mach bindings to implement Hurd features like translators. 
 
 The switch to pthreads has been attempted multiple times, but in the past it always hit some tricky issues which proved to be a roadblock. Last year, Richard Braun took up the task again and finished the transition of the Hurd libraries and glibc to pthreads with libpthread.