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authorArne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>2010-09-12 15:46:54 +0200
committerArne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>2010-09-12 15:46:54 +0200
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[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-> This month you can get a lot of insight into the Hurd watching the
-> presentations from Neal Walfield and Michael Bank on Hurd
-> [at the GHM (GNU Hackers' Meeting) in denhaag](http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2010/denhaag/)
-> ([video: “It’s About Freedom”)](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2010/GNU-Hurd_-_Its_About_Freedom,_Or_Why_you_should_care.ogv))
-> and Debian GNU/Hurd
-> [at the DebConf10](http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/595.en.html):
-> ([slides: “Past. Present. And Future?”](http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/attachments/159_debian-hurd.pdf),
+> This month you can get a lot of insight into the Hurd very easily by watching
+> the presentations from Neal Walfield and Michael Bank on Hurd
+> at the GHM (GNU Hackers' Meeting) in denhaag: [“It’s About Freedom”](http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2010/denhaag/)
+> ([video](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2010/GNU-Hurd_-_Its_About_Freedom,_Or_Why_you_should_care.ogv))
+> and Debian GNU/Hurd at the DebConf10:
+> [“Past. Present. And Future?”](http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/595.en.html)
+> ([slides](http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/attachments/159_debian-hurd.pdf),
> [video](http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2010/debconf10/high/1117_Debian_GNUHurd.ogv)),
> including a very nice nod towards the main forces who are presently
-> pushing the Hurd into the future *(further
+> pushing the Hurd forward *(→ further
> [[media_appearances]] of the Hurd).*
-> Also Jeremie Koenig
+> Also Jeremie Koenig (among other things)
> [rewrote procfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00165.html)
-> for the debian installer [[user/jkoenig|Summer of Code project]]:
-> “I have successfully tested it with most of the Linux procps utilities,
+> for the [[debian installer Summer of Code project|user/jkoenig]]:
+> *“I have successfully tested it with most of the Linux procps utilities,
> as well as busybox and htop. It seems to be stable, not too slow, and
-> it stays under 1.5M in resident size.”
+> it stays under 1.5M in resident size.”*
> To get and test it:
-> > git clone http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git
-> > cd hurd
-> > git remote add jk git://github.com/jeremie-koenig/hurd.git
-> > git fetch jk
-> > git checkout jk/procfs # Add "-b procfs" to create a local branch.
-> > make procfs
-> > settrans -ag /proc procfs/procfs --compatible
-> > # you now have your new procfs setup for your user
+> > git clone http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git
+> > cd hurd
+> > git remote add jk git://github.com/jeremie-koenig/hurd.git
+> > git fetch jk
+> > git checkout jk/procfs *# Add "-b procfs" to create a local branch.*
+> > make procfs
+> > settrans -ag /proc procfs/procfs --compatible
+> > *# you now have your new procfs*
<!--note: this shows off the ease with which you can test deeper changes in the Hurd, so I think it warrants the space it gets.-->
@@ -64,14 +64,13 @@ else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
> [released a new LiveCD](http://www.archhurd.org/news/17)
> ([changes](http://www.barrucadu.co.uk/arch-hurd-livecd-i686-core-2010-08-25iso))
> which is a lot more stable that the previous one
-> (including a more stable X, now at Xorg 1.9!), added a
+> (including a more stable X, now at Xorg 1.9), added a
> [Planet Arch Hurd](http://planet.archhurd.org/)
> which aggregates the Arch Hurd Blogs and packaged everything you need for a
> [HAMP](http://www.archhurd.org/news/18/) system:
-> Hurd, Apache, MySQL and PHP. And you can now
+> Hurd, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Sidenote: you can now
> [flattr](http://flattr.com/thing/44395/Arch-Hurd)
> Arch Hurd, if you want to support the project.
-
> Also for
> [Arch Hurd](http://archhurd.org),
> Diego Nieto Cid brought the console-driver-xkb
@@ -79,7 +78,7 @@ else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
> Finally we had a short review of what the current Hurd contributors
> [still need](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00029.html)
-> ( [summary](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00087.html))
+> ([summary](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00087.html))
> to use the Hurd for most of their day-to-day tasks.
"""]]