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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
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+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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+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="2010-06-06 22:15 UTC"]]
+
+A month of the Hurd: *DDE linux26*, *thread storms*, *patches*, *new live CD* and *IRC meetings*. 
+[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
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+[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
+
+> [[Zheng_Da|user/zhengda]]
+> [reported](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00037.html)
+> on the state of his ongoing work of porting DDE linux26 to the Hurd, which is
+> meant to improve the GNU/Hurd hardware support.  The devices as emulated by
+> QEMU and VMware already work fine, but he's still seeking help for testing on
+> real hardware.
+
+> Sergio López published
+> [patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00059.html)
+> as well as [readily-usable
+> packages](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00106.html)
+> to prevent thread storms in ext2fs when synchronizing large pagers.  This
+> should improve system performance and stability.
+
+> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Sergio López developed further patches (for
+> example:
+> [exec](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00108.html),
+> [tmpfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00077.html)) to
+> fix or improve the various internal Hurd servers, and discussed them with
+> other Hurd developers.
+
+> Justus Winter [created a live
+> CD](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00033.html) with an
+> installation wizard in the spirit of the OpenBSD installer.  He needs testers
+> to help improve it.
+
+> Ludovic Courtès informed that he has added support for [cross-building
+> packages from GNU/Linux to
+> GNU/Hurd](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00105.html)
+> to the Nix package manager, as well as doing [continuous cross-building of
+> the GNU Hurd
+> itself](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00111.html),
+> and [glibc](http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2010-05/msg00049.html).
+
+> The [[regular IRC meetings|irc#regular_meetings]] for [[Google Summer of Code
+> students|community/gsoc]], their mentors, and any other interested parties
+> [are
+> continuing](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00148.html)
+> on Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30 UTC, as Olaf Buddenhagen reported.  If you
+> want to catch up, have a look at the [#hurd channel
+> logs](http://richtlijn.be/~larstiq/hurd/).
+
+> As always in the *Month of the Hurd*, these news blurbs are only a selection
+> of what happened in the last month.  There's always more to be found on our
+> [[mailing_lists]], especially [[mailing_lists/bug-hurd]].
+
+"""]]