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author | Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> | 2013-05-11 01:07:16 +0200 |
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committer | Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> | 2013-05-11 01:07:16 +0200 |
commit | 0a264805bfc431c6718f6089209cc18b91c84469 (patch) | |
tree | b96aa1fda6e0099b2de97ddd2240067f5f52d2c2 /contributing | |
parent | 93eeb0c0bc7429bfd30e6a46f3860403fba68aa4 (diff) | |
parent | 209ba8d270d18cd81498b7cd98b42a3abf5da79d (diff) |
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diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn index 5cdc86e5..222cd451 100644 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn +++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ else=" [[!cut id="full_news" text=""" -It is with huge pleasure that the Hurd project announces the +It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd port announces the **release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2013**. This is a snapshot of Debian sid at the time of the Debian Wheezy release (May 2013), so it is mostly based on Wheezy. It is *not* an @@ -30,16 +30,13 @@ 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. A pre-installed disk image -is also available to make trying Debian GNU/Hurd even easier. +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. -Yes, really. This time it is not a joke like the -[[0.401 release|news/2011-04-01]]. - -Due to the very small number of developers, -our progress of the project has not been as fast as other successful -Operating Systems, but we believe that we now reached a very good -state. +Debian GNU/Hurd it's currently available for the i386 architecture with more +than 10.000 software packages available (> 75% of the Debian archive, and more +to come!). Please make sure to read the [[configuration information|http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install]], @@ -47,6 +44,11 @@ the [[FAQ|faq]], and the [[translator primer|hurd/documentation/translator_primer]] for a start. +Due to the very small number of developers, +our progress of the project has not been as fast as other successful +Operating Systems, but we believe to have reached a very good +state, even with the limited resources. + We would like to thank all the people who have worked on GNU/Hurd over the past decades. There were not many people at any given time (and still not many people today, please [[join|contributing]]!), but in the end a lot of people have @@ -58,13 +60,13 @@ contributed one way or the other. **Thanks everybody!** - 2002: GNU MIG 1.3, libio-based glibc, GNU Mach 1.3 (disks >= 10GiB), Hurd L4 starts, work on the transition from cthreads to pthreads starts, Hurd installation party in Heidelberg, Toronto Hurd User Group meeting, Presentation at EpX in Paris ([slides](http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/pres-en/)). - 2003: [Crosshurd](http://packages.debian.org/crosshurd), [LinuxTag 2003](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-hurd/2003-07/msg00029.html). - 2005: Hurd/L4 at Libre Software Meeting. -- 2007: [[FOSDEM|community/meetings/fosdem_2007]], the [[critique_and_position_paper|news/2007-01-14]], [[libchannel_for_GSoC|news/2007-10-01]], [[IPv6|news/2007-10-12]], Hurd/L4 abandoned. -- 2008: [[5_successful_GSoC_projects|news/2008-09-11]], Hurd on Xen via PAE, [[Hurd/Viengoos|news/2008-12-12]]. +- 2007: [[FOSDEM|community/meetings/fosdem_2007]], the [[critique_and_position_paper|news/2007-01-14]], [[libchannel_for_GSoC|news/2007-10-01]], [[IPv6|news/2007-10-12]], Hurd/L4 abandoned, Hurd on Xen. +- 2008: [[5_successful_GSoC_projects|news/2008-09-11]], [[Hurd/Viengoos|news/2008-12-12]] - 2009: [[GSoC_unionmount_translator|news/2009-09-30]], [[Start_of_Device_Drivers_in_Userspace|news/2009-11-30]]. -- 2010: [Arch Hurd](http://www.archhurd.org/), [Initial Nix port](http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/hurd-master), [[DDE|news/2010-02-28]], slow but working Xorg, Thesis: [[Generalizing mobility for the Hurd|news/2010-01-31]], [Hurd article in LWN](http://lwn.net/Articles/395150/), [[procfs|hurd/translator/procfs]], Talk: [It’s about Freedom](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2010/GNU-Hurd_-_Its_About_Freedom,_Or_Why_you_should_care.ogv), GSoC: Debian Installer, Hurd/Viengoos on hold, Hurd on Xen as DomU works. +- 2010: [Arch Hurd](http://www.archhurd.org/), [Initial Nix port](http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/hurd-master), [[DDE|news/2010-02-28]], Thesis: [[Generalizing mobility for the Hurd|news/2010-01-31]], [Hurd article in LWN](http://lwn.net/Articles/395150/), [[procfs|hurd/translator/procfs]], Talk: [It’s about Freedom](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2010/GNU-Hurd_-_Its_About_Freedom,_Or_Why_you_should_care.ogv), GSoC: Debian Installer, Hurd/Viengoos on hold. - 2011: [[GNU_Hurd_0.401|news/2011-04-01]], xkb, [Hurd in xkcd](http://xkcd.com/844/), Graphical Debian Installer, Plans for Debian GNU Hurd in Wheezy, Hurd [bounties](http://www.fossfactory.org/project/p276) on FOSS Factory, Lots of [attention from the press brought lots of rumors](news/2011-q2-ps), [Talk at GHM in Paris](http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/#outline-container-2-5) ([video](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2011/Samuel_Thibault-GNU_Hurd.ogv)), slab allocator, Continuous builds with Nix, improved build system, GSoC: [[Java|user/jkoenig/java]]. -- 2012: Half the Linux network drivers build with DDE, [Continuous testing with Nix](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-03/msg00019.html), glibc changes pushed upstream, improved debugging, memory mapping [with red-black tree](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00109.html), pthreads work, [[live-filesystem-debugging_report|news/2012-q1-q2]]. -- 2013: +- 2012: Half the Linux 2.6.32 network drivers build with DDE, [Continuous testing with Nix](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-03/msg00019.html), glibc changes pushed upstream, improved debugging, memory mapping [with red-black tree](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00109.html), pthreads work, [[live-filesystem-debugging_report|news/2012-q1-q2]]. +- 2013: [Talk at FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/hurd_microkernel/) --- |