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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!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="2010-07-08 14:00 UTC"]]
+
+A month of the Hurd: *Debian Installer*, *clustered page-in*, and *a bunch of
+bug fixing*.
+[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
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+[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
+
+> A bunch of patches have hit the mailing lists and source code repositories:
+
+> Jérémie Koenig posted a [preliminary
+> patch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00047.html) to
+> add initrd (initial ramdisk) support in GNU Mach for his [[Google Summer of
+> Code|community/gsoc]] 2010 project: [[Debian Installer|jkoenig]].  With this
+> patch, and some other patches that are still in flux, he ended up being able
+> to install a [[Debian GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]] system using the Debian
+> Installer -- which is the goal of his project.  Patches being *in flux* means
+> that there's still work left to be done to properly solve some issues, so
+> there's no need to worry that Jérémie wouldn't have any work left until the
+> GSoC ends.
+
+> Karim Allah Amed came up with the [first
+> patch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00023.html) for
+> porting the clustered paging-in code from OSF Mach to GNU Mach, which should
+> improve the virtual memory performance of the Hurd.
+
+> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort got a bug in [glibc
+> fixed](http://sources.redhat.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=2a50c07836d2750baf70442f8f760bf6cd43b3af),
+> which unblocks a problem we've seen in [coreutils'
+> `ln`](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29655), and also continued to make
+> progress on other grounds.
+
+> Zheng Da
+> [began](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-06/msg00003.html)
+> [to](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-06/msg00005.html)
+> [commit](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-06/msg00014.html)
+> patches to make his [[DDE project|zhengda]] support block device drivers,
+> apart from fixing some other issues, too.
+
+> Samuel Thibault [fixed memory
+> leaks](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-06/msg00018.html)
+> in [[`pfinet`|hurd/translator/pfinet]], which is the Hurd's TCP/IP networking
+> unit.  Even though that a crashed `pfinet` [[server|hurd/translator]] will be
+> restarted upon its next use, having it eat up all system memory is to be
+> avoided, of course -- and is corrected with these patches.
+
+> Carl Fredrik Hammar submitted patches to improve the stability of the auth
+> server ([rendezvous port
+> death](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00003.html) /
+> [invalid rendezvous
+> ports](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00019.html)).
+
+> Lastly, if you haven't seen it already: Richard Hillesley has posted an
+> article [*GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost
+> promise*](http://www.h-online.com/open/features/GNU-HURD-Altered-visions-and-lost-promise-1030942.html)
+> that caused [quite](http://lwn.net/Articles/394295/)
+> [a](http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ckjt2/gnu_hurd_altered_visions_and_lost_promise/)
+> [bunch](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ckjud/the_hurd_altered_visions_and_lost_promise/)
+> [of](http://www.osnews.com/comments/23511)
+> [discussion](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1474941) -- some of it valid
+> and constructive criticism, some of it less so.  If *you* want to come in
+> contact with us GNU Hurd developers, there are [[numerous options to contact
+> us|contact_us]]!
+
+"""]]