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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="2010-08-10 17:30 UTC"]]
+
+A month of the Hurd: *Thanks, Phil!*, *Debian Installer*, *compatibility*, and
+*LWN article*.
+[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
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+[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
+
+> Philip Charles, our 72 years old provider of Debian GNU/Hurd installation CDs
+> [has now resigned](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/07/msg00020.html)
+> from that position.  This has lead to a flood of [public thank-you
+> responses](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/07/msg00020.html#00021),
+> and surely yet more of those have been sent privately.  Phil, thanks again
+> for providing the many installation images you've started producing [nearly
+> ten years ago](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2000/08/msg00249.html)! --
+> oh, the joy of (not) uploading CD-size images using a 56k modem... -- and
+> that have been the first choice for many of us to get a [[Debian
+> GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]] system installed.
+
+> On the other hand, there's no need to worry about these news: Jérémie Koenig
+> got the [Debian Installer for the
+> Hurd](http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-installer/) into a basically working
+> state; there is a simple [four step installation
+> guide](http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-installer/README.txt).  This brings us
+> a big step forward towards easy installation of Debian GNU/Hurd and automated
+> image creation.  You can track Jérémie's progress on his [[user
+> page|jkoenig]].
+
+> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort also made progress with his Google Summer of Code
+> work.  For example, he posted a new iteration of his proposed [changes to
+> exec](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/msg00141.html) as
+> well as he added support for [sending file descriptors over Unix
+> sockets](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/msg00145.html).
+> These patches add features and improve compatibility to other systems, and
+> thus help to get more software packages to work as expected on GNU/Hurd
+> systems.
+
+> Ludovic Courtès [fixed `make
+> dist`](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/threads.html#00107),
+> which allows for easy tarball creation of the GNU Hurd sources.
+
+> We've been in the news [[last month|2010-06-30]] -- and this month yet again:
+> LWN posted a well-researched article on the status of the Hurd: Koen
+> Vervloesem: [*The Hurd: GNU's quest for the perfect
+> kernel*](http://lwn.net/Articles/395150/).
+
+"""]]