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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2002-01-13"]]
-
-An
-<A HREF="http://www.pl-berichte.de/berichte/brinkmann.html">interview
-with Marcus Brinkmann</A> was published by <A
-HREF="http://pro-linux.de/">Pro-Linux</A> (the interview is in
-German).
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2002-01-19"]]
-
-The Toronto Hurd User Group meets: The University of Waterloo
-Computer Science Club will be hosting a talk on the Hurd and the
-Debian GNU/Hurd operating system.  There will also be a gpg keysigning
-and installfest for GNU/Hurd following the talk.  All are welcome, and
-gpg keys are not required.
-<P>
-Date: 26 Jan 2002
-<P>
-Time: 1400 (2pm EST)
-<P>
-Place: University of Waterloo, Math and Computers building, room 3001
-(comfy lounge).
-<P>
-More information about this event at
-<A HREF="mailto:thug@gnu.org"><EM>thug@gnu.org</EM></A>
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2002-02-18"]]
-
-Pro-Linux has published a <A
-HREF="http://www.pl-berichte.de/berichte/hurd/hurd-status/">GNU/Hurd
-status report</A> (in German).  They will infrequently publish updates
-in the future.
diff --git a/news/2002-03-03.mdwn b/news/2002-03-03.mdwn
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
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-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="2002-03-03"]]
-
-There is a new mailing list called <A
-HREF="http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/hurd-devel-readers">
-Hurd-devel-readers</A>. It is the read-only version of Hurd-devel.
-<P>
-Hurd-devel is a mailing list for detailed discussions
-of design and implementation issues in the GNU&nbsp;Hurd; it is an internal
-low-volume list restricted to the core developers of the Hurd.  While
-the <A HREF="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/hurd-devel/">web-based
-archive of Hurd-devel</A> has always been public, the new mailing list
-Hurd-devel-readers provides a convenient way to follow
-the discussion of the Hurd experts.
-<P>
-If you are a recipient of Hurd-devel-readers and want
-to follow up on the discussion, please reply to the
-Bug-hurd mailing list.
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
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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
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-is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!meta date="2002-03-08"]]
-
-We are pleased to announce version 1.3 of the GNU distribution of the
-Mach 3.0 interface generator `MIG'.  It may be found in the file
-<SAMP><A HREF="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mig/mig-1.3.tar.gz">http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mig/mig-1.3.tar.gz</A></SAMP> (about 145 KB compressed).
-<P>
-Diffs from version 1.2 are in <SAMP><A HREF="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mig/mig-1.2-1.3.diff.gz">http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mig/mig-1.2-1.3.diff.gz</A></SAMP>
-(about 6 KB compressed, 15 KB uncompressed).  Relative to version 1.2,
-version 1.3 contains only some minor fixes.
-<P>
-You need this tool to compile the GNU&nbsp;Mach and Hurd distributions, and
-to compile GNU libc for the Hurd.
-<P>
-Bug reports relating to this distribution should be sent to
-<A HREF="mailto:bug-hurd@gnu.org">bug-hurd@gnu.org</A>.  Requests for assistance should be made on
-<A HREF="mailto:help-hurd@gnu.org">help-hurd@gnu.org</A>.
-<P>
-The md5sum checksum for this distibution is:
-<P>
-45c2b7456727d81dbd75f7152f8136fd  mig-1.3.tar.gz
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-is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!meta date="2002-03-23"]]
-
-Added the [[hurd/Hurd_Hacking_Guide]] to the documentation section.  Thanks to
-Wolfgang Jährling for providing this introduction into GNU/Hurd and Mach
-programming!
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2002-05-05"]]
-
-We are currently finishing the transition from a stdio-based GNU C
-Library (glibc) to a libio-based one.  This is the result of about
-five months of work we put into getting the system ready and, of
-course, the work that the glibc developers did to make glibc what it
-is.
-<P>
-This change will have various advantages, for example libio has been
-tested more extensively, as it is also used by most GNU/Linux systems
-for some time now.  However, it also means a change in the Application
-Binary Interface (ABI) of glibc, thus you will need to reinstall an
-existing Debian GNU/Hurd system.  Upgrading has not been tested at
-all, so better do not expect it to work.  Also note that you will need
-to get some of the Debian packages from <A
-HREF="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian-libio/">alpha.gnu.org</A>.
-Please read the recent mailing list archives for details.
-<P>
-<B>Important Note:</B> As another temporary complication, the current
-installation tarball is available at <A
-HREF="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian-staging/">a different place</A>
-than usual.
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
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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
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-is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!meta date="2002-05-18"]]
-
-The "Linux and Unix User Group Heilbronn" (in Germany) is organizing
-a Debian GNU/Hurd <A
-HREF="http://www.luug-hn.org/vortraege.html">installation party</A> at
-25 May 2002. In addition to that, Wolfgang J&auml;hrling will give a talk
-about usage of GNU/Hurd, common problems found in porting programs to
-GNU/Hurd and programming of extensions for the Hurd.  It is a public
-event, so everyone is free to show up and participate.
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2002-05-24"]]
-
-Finally, the transition from the stdio-based GLibC Application
-Binary Interface (ABI) to the libio-based GLibC ABI has been
-completed.  The Debian GNU/Hurd binary distribution has resumed
-building packages again, and everything should be back to normal.
-Note that we have also switched to <A
-HREF="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/">GCC 3.1</A> as our default
-compiler.  Thanks to everyone who helped in making all this possible,
-and our apologize for any inconvenience we have caused you.
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
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-is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!meta date="2002-05-28"]]
-
-We are pleased to announce version 1.3 of the GNU distribution of
-the Mach kernel, featuring advanced boot script support, support for
-large disks (>= 10GB) and an improved console.
-<P>
-This distribution is only for x86 PC machines.
-Volunteers interested in ports to other architectures are eagerly sought.
-<P>
-More <A HREF="gnumach-download.html#release">information about GNU
-Mach 1.3</A> is available on the GNU&nbsp;Mach web page.
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
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-is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!meta date="2002-06-22"]]
-
-Various developers of the Hurd and people interested in it will meet
-at the <A HREF="http://lsm.abul.org/">Libre Software Meeting</A> in
-Bordeaux on July 9-13.  Neal Walfield, who is working on porting the
-Hurd to the <A HREF="http://www.l4ka.org/">L4</A> microkernel, will give
-a presentation about L4, the people from
-<A HREF=" http://www.hurdfr.org/">HurdFr</A> will give an
-introduction to the Hurd, and another presentation about the Hurd will
-be given by Marcus Brinkmann.  There might be additional talks about
-the Hurd and related topics.
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
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-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
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-[[!meta date="2002-08-16"]]
-
-The Hurd sources have stabilized again after a short period in
-which some of the interfaces were changed to prepare support of long
-files.  All relevant filesystem and I/O interfaces have been modified
-to use 64 bit even on 32 bit systems.
-
-In light of the small and patient user base, we decided to drop
-backwards compatibility and replace the interfaces instead extending
-them.  This means that the binaries of the Hurd, the C library, and
-some other programs need to be replaced manually, all at the same
-time, followed by a reboot.
-
-A <A
-HREF="http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/extra-files/hurd-upgrade.txt">detailed
-step-by-step procedure how to upgrade</A> Debian GNU/Hurd is available
-on the Debian web site.
-
-People not using a binary distribution need to do a full manual
-bootstrap.  It is recommended to treat this as a cross-compilation
-case.
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2002-10-03"]]
-
-A new article about [[the_authentication_server|hurd/documentation/auth]]
-has been added to the web pages.  It resembles the talk
-about the same topic which was given at the Libre Software Meeting,
-therefore the target audience is mostly programmers which want to learn
-about the details of authentication in the Hurd.
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
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-is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!meta date="2002-10-03"]]
-
-Marcus Brinkmann speaks about the GNU&nbsp;Hurd at "Reflections |
-Projections 2002", the <A
-HREF="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/">National Student ACM
-Conference</A> at the University of Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.  The
-conference is held on October 18-20.
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
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-is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!meta date="2002-10-19"]]
-
-The Toronto Hurd Users Group meets again: The <A
-HREF="http://www.uwaterloo.ca/"> University of Waterloo</A> <A
-HREF="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/">Computer Science Club</A> will
-be hosting talks on the GNU&nbsp;Hurd on October 26 by Marcus Brinkmann and
-Neal Walfield.  There will also be a <A
-HREF="http://www.gnupg.org/">GnuPG</A> keysigning before Marcus's
-talk.  Please email <A HREF="mailto:rmgolbeck@uwaterloo.ca">Ryan
-Golbeck</A> your <A HREF="http://www.gnupg.org/">GnuPG</A> key so he
-can get everyone setup.</P>
-
-<P>Marcus will talk about <A
-HREF="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC2066-2002-10-26-3%3A00PM.html">the
-Hurd interfaces</A>.  Neal will talk about about
-<A HREF="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC2066-2002-10-26-4%3A30PM.html">
-A GNU Approach to Virtual Memory Management in a Multiserver Operating
-System
-</A></P>
-
-<P>Date: 26 Oct 2002</P>
-<P>Time: 1330 (1:30pm EST) and 1500 (3:00pm EST)</P>
-<P>Place: University of Waterloo, Math and Computers building, room MC
-2066</P>
-
-<P>More information can be found at <A
-HREF="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/"> UW CS Club website</A> and
-at <A HREF="mailto:thug@gnu.org">thug@gnu.org</A>
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
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-is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!meta date="2002-11-18"]]
-
-For one month now, the pthread implementation by Neal Walfield is part
-of the Hurd CVS source tree, and has been used to compile more
-software for the Debian GNU/Hurd archive.  The lack of a POSIX
-compatible thread library (the Hurd was based on the cthread
-implementation that originally accompanied Mach) was a show stopper,
-and we are happy about the possibility to not only compile more
-applications, but also to start the work on migrating the Hurd source
-code to pthreads.
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-is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!meta date="2003-01-18"]]
-
-Ga&euml;l Le Mignot, president of HurdFr,
-<A HREF="http://news.hurdfr.org/gen.php3/2002/11/05/44,0,1,0,0.html">
-presented the GNU&nbsp;Hurd on 22 November</A>
-2002 at EpX in Paris.
-<A HREF="http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/pres-en/">English slides</A> and
-<A HREF="http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/pres-fr/">French slides</A> of the
-talk are also available.
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-
-[[!meta date="2003-02-14"]]
-
-The <A HREF="/software/hurd/docs.html#UsersGuide">GNU/Hurd User's Guide</A>
-is now accessible through the <A HREF="/software/hurd/docs.html">Documentation
-</A> section of the Hurd web pages.
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2003, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
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-is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!meta date="2003-07-02"]]
-
-The tarball for Debian GNU/Hurd that Marcus Brinkmann made over the
-years has been discontinued in favour of Jeff Bailey's
-<A HREF="http://packages.debian.org/crosshurd">crosshurd</A> package.
-To install Debian GNU/Hurd from now on, this package should be used.
-Another Debian system is required to be installed on the same machine.
-The GNU/Hurd installation guide has not been updated yet.
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-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!meta date="2003-07-16"]]
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-GNU/LinuxTag 2003 is now over and since there was a talk given about
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-t-shirts, Wolfgang J&auml;hrling decided to write a <A
-HREF="http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-hurd/2003-07/msg00029.html">short
-summary</A> of what happened there.  Many thanks to Wolfgang
-J&auml;hrling, Volker Dormeyer and Michael Banck!
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-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!meta date="2003-08-21"]]
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-HREF="http://www.htu.tugraz.at/~past/hurd/global/">the Hurd Source
-Code Cross Reference</A> in all the "Source code" sections.
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2005, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-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="2005-01-28"]]
-
-Marcus Brinkmann added
-<A HREF="/software/hurd/hurd-l4.html">a small web page</A> describing
-the ongoing developments on the Hurd-to-L4 port.
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2005, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
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-is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!meta date="2005-09-20"]]
-
-Material from the Operating System topic during
-the <A HREF="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software
-Meeting</A> which took place this summer
-is <A
-HREF="http://medias.2005.libresoftwaremeeting.org/topics/os/">available
-online</A>.  Included are slides and recordings of talks by Marcus
-Brinkmann and Neal Walfield about the Hurd/L4 port.
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2006, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2006-04-27"]]
-
-<p>The GNU&nbsp;Hurd project will participate in this year's <strong>Google
-Summer of Code</strong>, under the aegis of the GNU project.</p>
-
-<p>The following is a list of items you might want to work on.  If you want to
-modify or extend these tasks or have your own ideas what to work on, please
-feel invited to contact us on the
-[[bug-hurd_mailing_list|mailing lists/bug-hurd]] or
-the [[#hurd_IRC_channel|irc]].</p>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li>Make GNU&nbsp;Mach use more <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5488">up
-to date <em>device drivers</em></a>.</li>
-
-<li>Work on <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5489">GNU&nbsp;Mach's
-<em>IPC / VM system</em></a>.</li>
-
-<li>Design and implement a <a
-href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5485"><em>sound system</em></a>.</li>
-
-<li>Transition the Hurd libraries and servers <a
-href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5487">from <em>cthreads</em> to
-<em>pthreads</em></a>.</li>
-
-<li>Find and implement a reasonable way to make the Hurd servers use <a
-href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5490"><em>syslog</em></a>.</li>
-
-<li>Design and implement <a
-href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?1619"><em>libchannel</em></a>, a library
-for streams.</li>
-
-<li>Rewrite <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5469"><em>pfinet</em></a>,
-our interface to the IPv4 world.</li>
-
-<li>Implement and make the Hurd properly use <a
-href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5503"><em>extended
-attributes</em></a>.</li>
-
-<li>Design / implement / enhance support for the...
-
-  <ul>
-  <li><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5486"><em>Andrew File System
-  (AFS)</em></a>;</li>
-    
-  <li><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5497"><em>NFS client</em> and
-  <em>NFSd</em></a>;</li>
-    
-  <li><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5498"><em>EXT3 file
-  system</em></a>;</li>
-    
-  <li><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5499"><em>Logical Volume Manager
-  (LVM)</em></a>.</li>
-
-  </ul>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>Please see the page <a href="/software/soc-projects/guidelines.html">GNU
-guidelines for Summer of Code projects</a> about how to make an application and
-<a href="/software/soc-projects/ideas.html">Summer of Code project ideas
-list</a> for a list of tasks for various GNU projects and information about
-about how to submit your own ideas for tasks.</p>
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2011 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="2007-01-07"]]
-
-A number of GNU Hurd developers will again (as already in the previous years)
-meet at the time of the FOSDEM 2007, which will take place from 2007-02-24 to
-25 in Brussels, Belgium.  [[This_wiki_page|community/meetings/fosdem_2007]] has
-some details.  [[Contact_us]] if you are interested in meeting with us.
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!meta date="2007-01-14"]]
-
-<p>Neal Walfield and Marcus Brinkmann have written and submitted for
-publication <a
-href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2007-01/msg00046.html"><em>A
-Critique of the GNU&nbsp;Hurd Multi-server Operating System</em></a> and a <a
-href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/l4-hurd/2007-01/msg00007.html">position
-paper <em>Improving Usability via Access Decomposition and Policy
-Refinement</em></a>.  Please follow the two preceding links to see the complete
-announcements.  The authors welcome comments and discussion which may be
-directed to the <a href="mailto:bug-hurd@gnu.org">&lt;bug-hurd@gnu.org&gt;
-mailing list</a> for the Critique and to the <a
-href="mailto:l4-hurd@gnu.org">&lt;l4-hurd@gnu.org&gt; mailing list</a> for the
-position paper.
-
-<p>The abstract of the Critique: <blockquote><p>The GNU&nbsp;Hurd's design was
-motivated by a desire to rectify a number of observed shortcomings in Unix.
-Foremost among these is that many policies that limit users exist simply as
-remnants of the design of the system's mechanisms and their implementation.  To
-increase extensibility and integration, the Hurd adopts an object-based
-architecture and defines interfaces, which, in particular those for the
-composition of and access to name spaces, are virtualizable.
-
-<p>This paper is first a presentation of the Hurd's design goals and a
-characterization of its architecture primarily as it represents a departure
-from Unix's.  We then critique the architecture and assess it in terms of the
-user environment of today focusing on security.  Then follows an evaluation of
-Mach, the microkernel on which the Hurd is built, emphasizing the design
-constraints which Mach imposes as well as a number of deficiencies its design
-presents for multi-server like systems.  Finally, we reflect on the properties
-such a system appears to require.</blockquote>
-
-<p>The abstract of the position paper: <blockquote><p>Commodity operating
-systems fail to meet the security, resource management and integration
-expectations of users.  We propose a unified solution based on a capability
-framework as it supports fine grained objects, straightforward access
-propagation and virtualizable interfaces and explore how to improve resource
-use via access decomposition and policy refinement with minimum interposition.
-We argue that only a small static number of scheduling policies are needed in
-practice and advocate hierarchical policy specification and central
-realization.</blockquote>
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
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-is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
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-[[!meta date="2007-03-14"]]
-
-<p>The GNU&nbsp;Hurd project will participate in this year's <strong>Google
-Summer of Code</strong>, under the aegis of the GNU project.</p>
-
-<p>The following is a list of items you might want to work on.  If you want to
-modify these task proposals or have your own ideas on what to work, then please
-don't hesitate to contact us on the
-[[bug-hurd_mailing_list|mailing lists/bug-hurd]] or
-the [[#hurd_IRC_channel|irc]].</p>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li>Design and implement <a
-href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?1619"><em>libchannel</em></a>, a library
-for streams.</li>
-
-<li>Rewrite <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5469"><em>pfinet</em></a>,
-our interface to the IPv4 world; create a <a
-href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5470"><em>pfinet6</em></a> to interface to
-the IPv6 world.</li>
-
-<li>Make GNU Mach use more <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5488">up to
-date <em>device drivers</em></a>.</li>
-
-<li>Design and implement a <a
-href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5485"><em>sound system</em></a>.</li>
-
-<li>Introduce the world of the <a
-href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5486"><em>Andrew File System (AFS)</em></a>
-to the Hurd.</li>
-
-<li>Work on enhancing our <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5497"><em>NFS
-client</em> and <em>NFSd</em></a>.</li>
-
-<li>Implement support for <a
-href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5499"><em>Logical Volume Management
-(LVM)</em></a>.</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>Please see the page <a href="/software/soc-projects/guidelines.html">GNU
-guidelines for Summer of Code projects</a> about how to make an application and
-<a href="/software/soc-projects/ideas.html">Summer of Code project ideas
-list</a> for a list of tasks for various GNU projects and information about
-about how to submit your own ideas for tasks.</p>
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-[[!meta date="2007-10-01"]]
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-This year the GNU Hurd had again been assigned one slot within the **Google
-Summer of Code** program, which was assigned to the task **design and implement
-[*libchannel*](http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?1619), a library for streams**.
-Carl Fredrik Hammar has been working on this task and recently [posted a
-summary](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2007-09/msg00009.html)
-about the successful work he had been doing, but also gave an outline about how
-he intends to continue improving and extending it.
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-[[!meta date="2007-10-12"]]
-
-Stefan Siegl added [[support_for_IPv6_networking|hurd/translator/pfinet/ipv6]]
-to the *pfinet* translator.
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-[[!meta date="2008-02-11"]]
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-A number of GNU Hurd developers will again (as already in the previous
-years) meet at the time of the FOSDEM 2008, which will take place from
-2008-02-23 to 24 in Brussels, Belgium.
-
-The page about [[community/meetings/FOSDEM_2008]] has some details.
-[[Contact_us]] if you are interested in meeting with us.
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!meta date="2008-03-19"]]
-
-The GNU Hurd project has been accepted as a mentoring organisation for the
-**Google Summer of Code 2008**!  If you are a student and looking for a job
-during the summer, take a look at our
-[[project_ideas_list|community/gsoc]]--here's your chance to help improving the
-GNU Hurd including mentoring from our side and being paid compensation from
-Google's!
-
-The application deadline has been [**extended** to **Monday,
-2008-04-07**](http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/browse_thread/thread/9fa88f31aa401f70),
-so there's more time for you students to hand in your Hurd applications.
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-
-[[!meta date="2008-09-11"]]
-
-All five students who worked on the Hurd during the **Google Summer of Code 2008** succeeded 
-in their projects. For more information please see [[the_community/gsoc_page|community/gsoc]]. 
-**Congratulations to both students and mentors!**
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-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!meta date="2008-11-14"]]
-
-[[Samuel_Thibault|samuelthibault]] has implemented support for the PAE feature
-offered by modern x86 processors.  This largely faciliates the deployment of
-GNU/Hurd systems running as a [[Xen_domU|microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen]]
-on top of a standard Debian GNU/Linux Xen dom0, for example.
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-is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!meta date="2008-12-12"]]
-
-Neal Walfield has submitted a paper to
-[[community/meetings/EuroSys_2009]] describing how resource management
-is done in [[microkernel/viengoos]]:
-
-[Viengoos: A Framework for Stakeholder-Directed Resource
-Allocation](http://walfield.org/papers/2009-walfield-viengoos-a-framework-for-stakeholder-directed-resource-allocation.pdf).
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-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=abstract
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-[[!cut id="abstract" text="""
-> General-purpose operating systems not only fail to provide adaptive
-> applications the information they need to intelligently adapt, but also
-> schedule resources in such a way that were applications to aggressively
-> adapt, resources would be inappropriately scheduled.  The problem is that
-> these systems use demand as the primary indicator of utility, which is a poor
-> indicator of utility for adaptive applications.
-
-> We present a resource management framework appropriate for traditional as
-> well as adaptive applications.  The primary difference from current
-> schedulers is the use of stakeholder preferences in addition to demand.  We
-> also show how to revoke memory, compute the amount of memory available to
-> each principal, and account shared memory.  Finally, we introduce a prototype
-> system, Viengoos, and present some benchmarks that demonstrate that it can
-> efficiently support multiple aggressively adaptive applications
-> simultaneously.
-"""]]
-
diff --git a/news/2009-03-28.mdwn b/news/2009-03-28.mdwn
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2011 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="2009-03-28"]]
-
-The application phase for the **Google Summer of Code 2009** has already
-started.  Please see our [[page_about_the_GSoC|community/gsoc]] for
-details of how to apply for your favorite Hurd project.
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2009-04-20"]]
-
-Sergiu Ivanov will be working on [[unionmount_translators|user/scolobb]] during 
-the **Google Summer of Code 2009**. 
diff --git a/news/2009-06-30.mdwn b/news/2009-06-30.mdwn
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2009-06-30"]]
-
-A month of the Hurd: *Git migration*, *stand-alone libpthread* and *updated
-status*.
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-> This month Thomas Schwinge [finished
-> migrating](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-06/msg00147.html)
-> the main Hurd, GNU Mach, MIG, libpthread and unionfs to Git.  You can find
-> the new repositories at <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/>.
-
-> Also, he made [libpthread buildable
-> stand-alone](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-06/msg00166.html)
-> by separating its build system from the Hurd's.
-
-> Additionally, Olaf Buddenhagen wrote a usability report about his experience
-> with the [[GNU Hurd for everyday work|hurd/status]].
-"""]]
diff --git a/news/2009-07-31.mdwn b/news/2009-07-31.mdwn
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-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2009-08-03 08:00 UTC"]]
-
-A month of the Hurd: *hurd Debian package*, *union mount translator*, *bug
-fixes*, and a *job opening*.
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-> Samuel Thibault uploaded a new version of the hurd
-> [[Debian|hurd/running/debian]] package which improves system stability by
-> fixing a long-standing bug in the [[hurd/translator/exec]] server that had
-> randomly made it hang, inhibiting the creation of new processes.
-
-> [[Sergiu Ivanov|scolobb]] implemented most of the functionality of the
-> [[union mount translator|hurd/translator/unionmount]] which allows combining
-> the [[filesystem trees exported by several translators|hurd/translator]] with
-> the filesystem tree of the underlying node (in contrast to a pure
-> [[hurd/translator/unionfs]], which won't do that).  The patches are currently
-> undergoing testing and review on the [[bug-hurd mailing
-> list|mailing_lists/bug-hurd]].  This work is being done as a [[Google Summer
-> of Code|community/gsoc]] project, and we're happy to tell that Sergiu
-> successfully passed the project's midterm evaluation.
-
-> Also, [[Zheng Da|zhengda]] [[!GNU_Savannah_patch 6851 desc="fixed a bug"]] in GNU Mach's
-> [[!wikipedia Berkeley Packet Filter desc="BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter)"]]
-> implementation and contributed a number of fixes and 
-> improvements for [[hurd/debugging/rpctrace]] which should help further debugging.
-
-> Aside from looking for new [[contributors|contributing]] all the time,
-> here is another job opening that doesn't require specific Hurd knowledge:
-> we're seeking [someone interested in writing a regression test suite for Hurd
-> components](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-07/msg00177.html).
-"""]]
diff --git a/news/2009-09-30.mdwn b/news/2009-09-30.mdwn
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2009-10-01 11:52 UTC"]]
-
-A month of the Hurd: *Successful Google Summer of Code project: unionmount*.
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-> This month saw the successful completion of the Google Summer of Code 2009, 
-> for which [[Sergiu Ivanov|scolobb]] created a 
-> [[unionmount_translator|hurd/translator/unionmount]]. 
-> His work allows you to simply union one directory or translator into another one, 
-> so you see the files of both of them side by side. 
-> 
-> He was mentored by Olaf Buddenhagen and both are now working on polishing the code 
-> and extending the namespace based translator selection ([[hurd/translator/nsmux]]) which allows you to 
-> read a node with a selected translator by simply appending `,,<translator>` to its name. 
-> 
-> That aside, we saw the usual steady rate of enhancement discussions, as well
-> as bugs getting fixed: X server crashing, preventing that GCC versions after
-> 4.2 optimize too much, etc.
-"""]]
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2009-11-02 22:39 UTC"]]
-
-A month of the Hurd: new *installation CDs*, further *Git migration*,
-*porting*.
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-> This month Philip Charles created a new [installation
-> CD](http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/current/), the [L
-> series](http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/current/README-L1-disc-set),
-> for the Hurd, which brings us a big step towards installing the Hurd from the
-> Hurd (without the need of a Linux-based installer).  If you enjoy testing
-> stuff, please give it a try.
-
-> On the same front, Michael Banck uploaded a new version of
-> [crosshurd](http://packages.debian.org/sid/crosshurd) that makes it again
-> possible to use this package for creating a GNU/Hurd system image directly
-> from Debian unstable packages.
-
-> Also, Thomas Schwinge migrated Sergiu Ivanov's [[hurd/translator/nsmux]],
-> [[Flávio Cruz|flaviocruz]]' cl-hurd *(clisp bindings)*, and Carl Fredrik
-> Hammar [[hurd/libchannel]] repositories into our new [*incubator* Git
-> repository](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/), making
-> them easier to access for other contributors.
-
-> Our bunch of porters continued to make further Debian packages usable on
-> GNU/Hurd: Pino Toscano worked on a lot of packages, and Wesley W. Terpstra
-> made [mlton](http://packages.debian.org/sid/mlton) build -- together with
-> Samuel Thibault, who first had to enhance [[GNU
-> Mach|microkernel/mach/gnumach]] to support allocating more than 1 GiB of RAM
-> to one user-space process, which mlton needs.
-
-> On the go, Samuel also fixed a number of other bugs here and there, for
-> example together with Eric Blake and Roland McGrath hashed out a difficile
-> issue in the filesystem servers regarding POSIX conformance and system
-> stability.
-"""]]
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2009-12-03 11:00 UTC"]]
-
-A month of the Hurd: initial work on *network device drivers in user space*,
-*GRUB 2*. 
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-> This month [[Zheng Da|zhengda]], our [[former Google Summer of Code student
-> working on network virtualization and some related
-> topics|community/gsoc/2008]], published the code for the pcnet32 device
-> driver that he had modified to run as a user-space process instead of inside
-> the kernel, and posted some preliminary [performance benchmark
-> results](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-11/msg00144.html).
-> The test results are mostly on par with the in-kernel driver, so they show
-> that moving the lower-layer parts of the networking stack, the device drivers
-> themselves, into user space can be done without losing (much) performance.
-> Given this encouraging start, work is going on to explore whether the [Device
-> Driver Environment](http://wiki.tudos.org/DDE/DDEKit) that has been created
-> for L4-based systems can be used for [providing GNU/Hurd systems with device
-> drivers](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-11/msg00241.html)
-> that (a) are more recent than our current ones, (b) support classes of
-> devices that [[we don't support so
-> far|microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list]], and (c) are
-> running as (possibly separate, fault-isolated) user-space processes.
-
-> Thanks to Samuel Thibault, the latest Debian GRUB 2 package (1.97+20091130-1)
-> [supports native
-> installation](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2009/11/msg00095.html) from
-> GNU/Hurd itself -- booting GNU/Hurd systems with GRUB has always been
-> working, but until now it wasn't possible to *install* GRUB from a GNU/Hurd
-> system.  GNU GRUB has originally been written [for booting GNU/Hurd
-> systems](http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#History), so this
-> step completes its original purpose.
-
-> Samuel also continued to work on preparing the [[Xen branch of GNU
-> Mach|microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen]] for being merged with the mainline
-> code, and he fixed a kernel panic in the kernel's floating point
-> support code.
-"""]]
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2009-12-31 17:33 UTC"]]
-
-A month of the Hurd: *official Xen domU support*, *DDE*, *porting*, and *FOSDEM 2010*. 
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-
-> This month Samuel Thibault [merged his development branch into GNU Mach's
-> master
-> branch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-12/msg00058.html) --
-> meaning that his [[GNU Mach Xen domU
-> port|microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen]] is now part of the official
-> sources.  Only the [[microkernel (GNU Mach)|microkernel/mach/gnumach]] needed
-> to be extended, and no changes were needed in the Hurd, or glibc code bases.
-> He had started this port in 2007 already, but it has been in heavy use over
-> the last two years already, so merging it into the main source bases was long
-> overdue.
-
-> He also got the necessary Xen patches committed into Xen's unstable branch,
-> so that from Xen's 4.0 release on you'll be able to boot GNU/Hurd systems
-> using `pv-grub`, without the need to prepare a special bootstrap image (like
-> an initrd).
-
-> Of course, running GNU/Hurd systems in other virtualization environments is
-> possible too, but the Xen domU approach offers superior performance compared
-> to [[hurd/running/QEMU]]'s machine emulation, for example.
-
-> Samuel also spent some time on adding code for [detecting invalid (duplicate)
-> port
-> deallocations](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2009-12/msg00016.html),
-> and started fixing these, as well as he fulfilled his usual share of
-> miscellaneous bug fixing.
-
-> The [[DDE]] port of Zheng Da now [passes the first
-> tests](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-12/msg00060.html),
-> bringing us the first steps towards updated device drivers -- and much lower
-> overhead for maintaining them.
-
-> Now that the Debian GNU/Hurd build stats are again hosted on the [master
-> Debian build machine](https://buildd.debian.org/stats/), Debian developers
-> see their packages' build failures more prominently, and quite a few started
-> to fix their packages.
-
-> Thus, thanks to the [[hurd/running/debian/porting]] work of mainly Emilio Pozuelo
-> Monfort and Pino Toscano, users of the Hurd can get many more packages
-> directly via the [[Debian GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]] distribution.
-> Thanks to their and the other porters' relentless work, the percentage of
-> available Debian packages [has reached
-> 66%](https://buildd.debian.org/stats/hurd-i386.txt), rising.  For a specific example,
-> they ported many GNOME packages, so that the `gnome-core` metapackage [is
-> installable
-> again](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-12/msg00217.html).
-> Please test these and [[report back|mailing lists/debian-hurd]].
-
-> Thomas Schwinge started the planning for [[a GNU Hurd folks meeting at
-> FOSDEM|community/meetings/fosdem 2010]] on February 6th/7th 2010 at the
-> Université Libre de Bruxelles.
-
-> Guillem Jover jumped in and started [fixing GNU Mach build
-> warnings](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2009-12/msg00008.html)
-> -- meaning that Thomas Schwinge's evil plan finally worked out, when he
-> enabled `-Wall` in an October 2006 commit:
-> 
->     +# Yes, this makes the eyes hurt.  But perhaps someone will finally take care of
->     +# all that scruffy Mach code...  Also see <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5726>.
->     +AM_CFLAGS += \
->     +       -Wall
-
-> ---
-
-> The GNU Hurd team wishes a pleasant Year 2010 to everyone!
-
-"""]]
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2010-02-02 00:25 UTC"]]
-
-A month of the Hurd: *Arch Hurd*, *FOSDEM preparations* and a *thesis on mobile Hurd objects*. 
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-
-> This month, we saw the first booting version of an [[hurd/running/Arch Hurd]]
-> system, which seconds the [[Debian GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]]
-> distribution that already provides two third of the Debian software archive
-> compiled for GNU/Hurd.
-
-> Nine Hurd developers will [[meet at FOSDEM
-> 2010|community/meetings/fosdem_2010]] on February 6th and 7th in Bruxelles,
-> Belgium.  On Sunday, Olaf will be giving two presentations in the Alt-OS
-> Developer Room: [*Why is Anyone Still Working on the GNU
-> Hurd?*](http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/altos_hurd) (10:30), and
-> [*Porting KGI graphics drivers from Linux to GNU
-> Hurd*](http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/altos_kgi_hurd) (13:00).  The
-> day before, on Saturday, Bas will be giving a [talk about *Iris*, his new
-> kernel](http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/emb_iris) (18:00, Embedded
-> Developer Room).
-
-> Carl Fredrik Hammar 
-> [finished and presented](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-01/msg00078.html) 
-> his thesis 
-> [*Generalizing mobility for the Hurd*](http://users.student.lth.se/cs07fh9/2009-hammar-hurd-mobility.pdf)
-> and passed with distinction.  Congratulations!  Its abstract reads:  
-
-> > The GNU Hurd features mobile objects
-> > in its implementation of filesystem backing stores.
-> > This thesis investigates the
-> > limitations and security concerns
-> > these objects present,
-> > and how they can be overcome.
-> > This is done in preparation for new applications
-> > that feature mobile code and mobile objects.
-> > In addition,
-> > one such application is studied and implemented,
-> > in which mobile code is used to make
-> > the `ioctl` system call more extensible.
-
-> So, when are *YOU* going to do a thesis, or another project on a
-> GNU/Hurd-related topic?  [[Contact_us]] if you are interested!
-
-"""]]
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2010-03-10 15:55 UTC"]]
-
-A month of the Hurd: *DDE driver*, *X.org / libpciaccess*, *FOSDEM*, and
-*Google Summer of Code 2010*.
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-
-> A bit late, but here it is finally: the *MotH* for February, 2010.
-
-> This month saw the first running and testable 
-> [[DDE driver by Zheng Da|user/zhengda]],
-> with which he begins to reap the benefits of porting [[DDE]] to the Hurd --
-> essentially, allowing us to use current Linux device drivers.
-
-> Samuel Thibault pushed a [libpciaccess x86
-> backend](http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libpciaccess/commit/?id=af2be74979aeab9a2fc4c933462e97ce70f816b6)
-> to X.Org:
-
-> > This adds support on x86 for OSes that do not have a PCI interface,
-> > tinkering with I/O ports, and makes use of it on GNU/Hurd.
-
-> In the course of this, he also got commit access to X.org, so it should be
-> easier now to get further Hurd-related patches applied.
-
-> As announced in our [[previous news blurb|2010-01-31]], at FOSDEM, Bas did
-> his presentation of [*Iris, a new capability-based microkernel
-> OS*](http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/emb_iris) in the Embedded
-> Developer Room, and Olaf illustrated [*Why is Anyone Still Working on the GNU
-> Hurd?*](http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/altos_hurd), and presented his
-> work of [*Porting KGI graphics drivers from Linux to GNU
-> Hurd*](http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/altos_kgi_hurd), in the Alt-OS
-> Developer Room.
-
-> In [Mikel Olasagasti's
-> words](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-03/msg00014.html):
-
-> > The room was full and people was "standing-up" for the talk. Some people
-> > even couldn't enter to the room (+20?).
-> > 
-> > Antrik [Olaf] made a good job. Was nice for the crowd to see Hurd running X,
-> > slow but working.
-
-> The regular IRC meeting schedule has been
-> [changed](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-02/msg00040.html)
-> to Wednesdays, 11:00 UTC; see the [[IRC#regular_meetings]] page for details.
-
-> Last, but not least, it is time again to think about the [[Google Summer of
-> Code|community/gsoc]].  In [[community/gsoc/2007]], the GNU Hurd had one
-> successful project, in [[community/gsoc/2008]] five of them,
-> [[community/gsoc/2009]] saw another one, so we obviously plan to make it five
-> projects again this year.  We already have [[dozens of
-> ideas|community/gsoc/project ideas]] online, and will add yet more -- also
-> based on YOUR suggestions and wishes!
-
-> So, if you're a student, and interested in working on the GNU Hurd, please
-> join in; browse through the [[community/GSoC]] pages, and don't be shy to
-> [[contact us]]!
-
-"""]]
diff --git a/news/2010-03-31.mdwn b/news/2010-03-31.mdwn
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2010-04-01 07:55 UTC"]]
-
-A month of the Hurd: some more *bug squashing* and *Google Summer of Code 2010*.
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-
-> This month saw bugs dying as they met hackers like [Jérémie,
-> Samuel](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-03/msg00027.html), or
-> [Zheng,
-> Thomas](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-03/msg00051.html), or
-> [Jakub](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-03/msg00071.html)
-> (keeping it to a few ones which were discussed on the [[bug-hurd mailing
-> list|mailing_lists/bug-hurd]]).
-
-> Olaf, Thomas and Fredrik
-> [wrote](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-03/msg00022.html) and
-> submitted our [[community/gsoc/organization_application]] for the Google
-> Summer of Code 2010.  However, Google is [asking most GNU projects to work
-> under the GNU project
-> umbrella](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-03/msg00125.html),
-> so we aren't listed as an organization on our own, but instead will again
-> participate as a subproject of GNU.
-
-> Anyway, this organizational detail is not at all important for interested
-> students; you can apply for any of the ideas that are listed on our
-> [[community/gsoc/project_ideas]] page (or come up with your own ideas, of
-> course!) via the [GNU project GSoC
-> page](http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/show/google/gsoc2010/gnuproject). If
-> you apply, please also include the information we're asking for on our
-> [[community/gsoc/student_application_form]].  Don't hesitate to
-> [[contact_us]] beforehand, if there are any questions.  We're looking forward
-> to seeing your applications, please send them in [before
-> 2010-04-09](http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs#timeline)!
-
-"""]]
diff --git a/news/2010-04-30.mdwn b/news/2010-04-30.mdwn
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2010-05-02 21:20 UTC"]]
-
-A month of the Hurd: *Arch Hurd*, *updated Debian GNU/Hurd QEMU image*, and *GSoC students*.
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-
-> The Arch Hurd folks keep [making good
-> progress](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-hurd/2010-04/msg00003.html):
-> their count of available packages keeps increasing, and one of their team
-> reported the first instance of Arch Hurd [running on real
-> hardware](http://www.archhurd.org/news/11) (and uploaded [a
-> photo](http://wiki.archhurd.org/wiki/User:Giselher#ArchHurd_on_a_real_PC) as
-> evidence).
-
-> Of course, our Debian port is still progressing, too: 66% of all Debian
-> packages [are currently available for Debian
-> GNU/Hurd](https://buildd.debian.org/stats/hurd-i386.txt).
-
-> *Samuel Thibault*'s fix got included in libxcb1, so X.org again [works out of
-> the box](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/04/msg00034.html) using a
-> simple `startx`.
-
-> *Philip Charles* [extended his
-> offerings](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/04/msg00019.html) with an
-> updated *GRUB USB stick for booting Debian GNU/Hurd*.
-
-> *Carl Fredrik Hammar* proposed a patch to [faciliate debugging the startup of
-> misbehaving
-> translators](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-04/msg00037.html).
-
-> Mainly thanks to *Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez*, we now have a [new QEMU
-> image](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/04/msg00098.html).  It can be
-> run with a simple `qemu -hda debian-hurd-17042010-qemu.img`.
-
-> *Thomas Schwinge* updated [our glibc maintenance
-> repository](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/glibc.git/?h=tschwinge/Roger_Whittaker)
-> to a recent version, including a bunch of the patches from the Debian glibc
-> package (and these are meant to eventually be submitted upstream).  After a
-> long break, he as well
-> [updated](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-04/msg00062.html)
-> his toolchain cross-compilation script [[`cross-gnu`|toolchain/cross-gnu]]
-> to
-> the current source code packages, and added C++ support.
-
-> On to the Google Summer of Code 2010: we got three students working on the
-> Hurd this year:
-
->   * *Jérémie Koenig*, mentored by *Samuel Thibault*, will be working on
->     adapting the Debian Installer to [produce working Debian GNU/Hurd
->     installation
->     images](http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/debian/t127230758239)
->     so we can easily offer up to date disc-sets.
->     ([Details](http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2010/HurdDebianInstaller/JeremieKoenig).)
-
->   * *Emilio Pozuelo Monfort*, mentored by *Carl Fredrik Hammar* (who was a
->     GSoC student in 2007), will be working on a task that may be perceived as
->     less exciting from the outside, but yet is extremely valuable: [fixing
->     compatibility problems exposed by projects'
->     testsuites](http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/gnuproject/t127230759396).
->     ([[Details|community/gsoc/project_ideas/testsuites]].)  For starters, he
->     already got a glibc patch [accepted
->     upstream](http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2010-04/msg00046.html).
-
->   * *Karim Allah Ahmed*, mentored by *Sergio López*, will be working on
->     [tuning the VM Subsystem in
->     GNU/Hurd](http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/gnuproject/t127230759587)
->     to bring the virtual memory management in Hurd/Mach up to date.
->     ([[Details|community/gsoc/project_ideas/vm_tuning]].)
-
-> We'd be happy to see *YOU* sign up on our mailing lists
-> ([[mailing_lists/bug-hurd]] and [[mailing_lists/debian-hurd]] are the main
-> lists), and [[contribute|contributing]] towards making the Hurd usable for
-> everyone, as written down in
-> [[our_mission_statement|community/weblogs/antrik/hurd-mission-statement]].
-> Perhaps one of the unassigned projects (outside of the Google Summer of Code
-> context) from our [[project_ideas_list|community/gsoc/project_ideas]] is fit
-> for you?
-
-"""]]
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!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]].
-
-"""]]
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-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!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]]!
-
-"""]]
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!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/).
-
-"""]]
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-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2010-09-17 13:00 UTC"]]
-
-A month of the Hurd: *Media Appearances*, *procfs*, *Arch Hurd*. 
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-
-> Neal Walfield and Michael Bank have been doing presentations related to the
-> GNU Hurd: from the GNU Hackers Meeting in the Hague you can watch the
-> {{$community/meetings/ghm2010#walfield_hurd}} where he details why we're
-> still interested in working on the GNU Hurd, and there is another
-> {{$community/meetings/debconf10#banck_hurd}} from DebConf10, including a very
-> nice nod towards the main actors who are currently pushing the Hurd forward.
-
-> Jérémie Koenig wrapped up his Google Summer of Code project ([[Debian
-> Installer|jkoenig]]) by posting his [*Hurd patches for
-> installer/build*](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/08/threads.html#00016)
-> as well as the [*patches used for hurd
-> 20100802-1~jk7*](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/08/threads.html#00022)
-> to the [[mailing_lists/debian-hurd]] mailing list.  Most of them have been
-> handled in the mean time, and we're still waiting for *you* to test his work
-> by following his easy [four-step
-> instructions](http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-installer/README.txt).
-
-> However, even though that [[this year's GSoC|community/gsoc]] has come
-> to an end, he didn't stop working: among other things, he has rewritten
-> [[hurd/translator/procfs]] and [published his
-> version](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00165.html)
-> just before the end of the month:
-> 
-> > 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.
-> 
-> Testing it is as simple as this:
-> 
->     $ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/hurd/procfs.git
->     $ cd procfs/
->     $ git checkout jkoenig/master
->     $ make
->     $ settrans -ca proc procfs --compatible
->     $ ls -l proc/
-
-> Thomas Schwinge [added some more
-> information](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00066.html)
-> to the web pages, notably a bunch of [[open_issues]] reports, to have them
-> registered in a generic place, and to facilitate coordination.  If you're
-> looking for a Hurd-related project to work on, go looking
-> [[there|open_issues]]!  He also converted and merged some of the [hurdextras
-> CVS repositories](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/) into the [hurd Git
-> repositories](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd) and our
-> [incubator](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/refs/).  All
-> of this should make it easier for new contributors to join in.
-
-> The [[hurd/running/Arch_Hurd]] guys have some news to share, too:
-> 
->   * They reported on their [current status](http://www.archhurd.org/news/17),
->     as well as they [released a new LiveCD
->     image](http://www.barrucadu.co.uk/arch-hurd-livecd-i686-core-2010-08-25iso),
->     and added a [Planet Arch Hurd](http://planet.archhurd.org/) which
->     aggregates the different Arch Hurd Blogs.
-> 
->   * The team [packaged everything](http://www.archhurd.org/news/18/) you need
->     for the [[faq/GHAMP]] solution stack.
-> 
->   * Their Diego Nieto Cid sent a patch series to [*bring console-driver-xkb
->     up to
->     date*](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/threads.html#00012).
->     This is a add-on to allow using X keymaps to configure the [[Hurd
->     console|hurd/console]] for non-US keyboard layouts.
-
-> Finally, amongst other bug fixing and other development work by the usual
-> suspects, we had a short review of what the current Hurd contributors [[still
-> need|community/weblogs/ArneBab/what_we_need]] to use a GNU/Hurd system for
-> most of their day-to-day tasks.  This may help to prioritize the development
-> efforts.
-
-"""]]
diff --git a/news/2010-09.mdwn b/news/2010-09.mdwn
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2010-10-23 12:47:26 UTC"]]
-
-A month of the Hurd: *new translators* / *bug fixing*.
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="
-[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-
-Yes, we're a bit late this month.  Arne Babenhauserheide, the guy who has
-started and has been drafting the *Month of the Hurd* ever since June 2009
-(yes, that one and a half years already!), moves on to other duties -- his wife
-has given birth to our first Hurd developer offspring (as far as I know):
-
-> Last friday my son Leandro entered our cold and too bright but friendly
-> world, [...]
-
-We wish them good luck for their new parental duty!
-
-The other guy, Thomas Schwinge, who has been editing and publishing the *Month
-of the Hurd* will take over -- at least temporarily (mind you, Arne).
-
-But, we got some Hurd news, too.
-
-Olaf Buddenhagen posted a patch that allows to [obtain number of ports in proc
-and libps](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-09/msg00036.html) by
-means of adding a new [[RPC]] -- and subsequently held a discussion with Samuel
-Thibault who proposed that instead of adding such functionality on an [ad hoc
-basis](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-09/msg00044.html), a
-more generic solution could be found, too.  In the end, they agreed that this
-functionality was useful enough, and the patch was
-[committed](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-09/msg00031.html).
-
-It is important to spend time on designing proper interfaces (RPCs in this
-case), but on the other hand what we're doing now need not be set in stone
-forever, as Olaf
-[explains](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-09/msg00045.html):
-
-> Well, we already have a mechanism for making communication protocols in
-> the Hurd extensible: it's called the RPC mechanism... :-) Let's not try
-> to invent another generic mechanism on top of RPCs.
-> 
-> *If* ten year down the road we indeed end up with half a dozen
-> miscallaneous info queries, we can *still* replace them by a new RPC
-> covering all of it...
-
-Thomas Schwinge [moved some
-packages](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-09/msg00031.html)
-([[hurd/translator/gopherfs]], [[hurd/translator/netio]],
-[[hurd/translator/tarfs]]) from hurdextras to the Hurd's
-[[source_repositories/incubator]] repository; these are now available as
-[[Debian GNU/Hurd packages|hurd/running/debian]].  Manuel Menal also spent time
-on actually making tarfs and good ol' gopherfs usable.
-
-Similar treatment [has been
-applied](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-09/msg00055.html) to
-Jérémie Koenig's new [[procfs|hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig]] implementation;
-this one is now [used in Debian
-GNU/Hurd](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-09/msg00063.html).
-
-Jérémie found some [problems with signal
-delivery](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-09/msg00006.html) --
-signals apparently are not delivered as expected.  Roland McGrath, this *hairy
-code*'s original author, [provided some
-insight](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-09/msg00008.html):
-
-> It's not that it's a bug, it's that the Hurd has never had POSIX-1996
-> multithreaded signal semantics.  The Hurd implementation predates those
-> specifications.
-
-He [continued to
-explain](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-09/msg00010.html):
-
-> The Hurd signal semantics are well-defined
-> today.  They are not the POSIX-1996 semantics in the presence of multiple
-> threads per process.
-
-This explains for differences comparing to other recent Unixy systems, for
-example Linux.  Neal Walfield, our [[libpthread]]'s main author,
-[states](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-09/msg00017.html) that
-he sees *no convincing reason to not adopt POSIX/Linux signal semantics and
-abandon Hurd signal semantics*.  Jérémie went on to [send a first
-patch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-09/msg00011.html).
-While already working in that area, Samuel Thibault applied some further fixes
-to our two threading libraries, and among others, he also sent a related glibc
-patch to [fix signal-catching
-functions](http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2010-09/msg00015.html).  And
-then, there is still the project about [[converting the Hurd's libraries and
-servers to using libpthread instead of Mach's cthreads
-(libthreads)|community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads]]; likely such signalling
-system moderizations could be done [alongside of
-that](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-09/msg00021.html).
-
-Manuel Menal [fixed a
-bug](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-09/msg00061.html) that
-occurred when sending file descriptors with `SCM_RIGHTS` over `PF_LOCAL`
-sockets.  He also identified this bug as the reason why the SSH daemon's
-privilege separation was not working on GNU/Hurd -- now [this is
-fixed](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-09/msg00036.html) and
-you can use the default of `UsePrivilegeSeparation yes`.
-
-Michael Banck has, based on user feedback, applied some changes to the
-[[!debpkg crosshurd]] package, and [uploaded a new
-version](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/09/msg00037.html).
-
-In other news, the [[hurd/running/Arch_Hurd]] guys rightfully concluded that
-now that they're having a package available for almighty GNU Emacs, [no further
-user-land packages need to be
-ported](http://blogs.archhurd.org/hayashi/2010/09/04/emacs-emacs/).  If only
-everyone was using Emacs...
-
-Last, and least, [there are
-rumors](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-09/msg00026.html) about
-our colleagues over at the Duke Nukem Forever department getting serious again.
-We shall see.  :-)
-
-"""]]
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2010-12-20 11:10 UTC"]]
-
-A month of the Hurd: *bug fixing* / *flubber re-installation*.
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="
-[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-
-A bit of bug fixing has been going on:
-
-Samuel Thibault taught [[GNU Mach|microkernel/mach/gnumach]] that Intel Pentium
-4 and Opteron-class CPUs [are not just
-i386](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-10/msg00021.html), but
-in fact a bit more advanced.  Not only does this help GNU Mach to select
-optimized code paths, but this information is also propagated to the user
-space, and used for the `uname` command, for example.
-
-Pino Toscano continued [fixing bugs in the socket-related glibc code and Hurd's
-pfinet](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-10/msg00017.html).
-
-After finding out that our `pread` implementation does not conform to the POSIX
-standard in one aspect, Manuel Menal analyzed this, and [posted a
-patch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-10/msg00056.html).
-
-Alexey Kuznetsov [privided IPv6 raw socket
-fixes](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-10/msg00028.html) for
-[[hurd/translator/pfinet]].
-
-Michael Banck [uploaded a new version of
-crosshurd](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-10/msg00006.html)
-to keep up with recent packaging and dependency changes.
-
-Samuel Thibault uploaded [[hurd/translator/gopherfs]] packages [to the Debian
-repository](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/10/msg00018.html).  He
-also [enabled IPv6 support for Debian Installer
-installations](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-10/msg00034.html).
-
-Thomas Schwinge:
-
-> It's been a really long-long time (hooray!), but now
-> [[flubber|public_hurd_boxen]]'s root file system is totally hosed, and thus
-> needs to be
-> [re-installed](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-10/msg00003.html).
-> (I've been running `apt-get dist-upgrade` when the box apparently crashed.)
-> Running `e2fsck` on it spew out over 50.000 lines of illegal and
-> multiply-claimed block lists, before I terminated it, so no chance.  I'll do
-> this over the weekend.  `/home/` etc. are not affected, thanks to being on a
-> separate partition.
-
-As of two days later, the machine was
-[re-installed](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-10/msg00011.html).
-
-"""]]
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2011-01-09 20:50 UTC"]]
-
-A month of the Hurd: *a short one*.
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="
-[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-
-That's a short one.  Apart from the regular business of having internal design
-/ development / etc. discussions, and helping people to get their Hurd systems
-running, we had Diego Nieto Cid post patches
-([1](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-11/msg00019.html),
-[2](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-11/msg00023.html)) to
-correct two programming errors, which Samuel Thibault quickly reviewed and
-applied to the [[source repositories]].
-
-"""]]
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2011-01-09 21:25 UTC"]]
-
-A month of the Hurd: *CD images*.
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="
-[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-
-Samuel Thibault [*updated the Debian GNU/Hurd installer
-ISO*](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/12/msg00001.html), and also
-again did his regular batch of bug fixing.
-
-*Arch Hurd is back in action!*, too: they uploaded a [first version of a
-graphical live CD](http://www.archhurd.org/news/19/).
-
-Neal Walfield
-[reported](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/l4-hurd/2010-12/msg00001.html) on
-the state of his [[microkernel/Viengoos]] kernel / research project, which
-unfortunately is currently on hold, due to other commitments.
-
-Olaf Buddenhagen raised an interesting use case: you can use a [[*subhurd* for
-debugging the *main* Hurd system|hurd/subhurd#debugging_main_hurd_system]].
-That is [[hurd/virtualization]] at its best!
-
-Right before the end of the year, Diego Martin Nieto Cid sent a [patch series
-to fix some issues with `make
-dist`](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-12/msg00024.html).
-
----
-
-Happy New Year 2011, everyone!
-
-"""]]
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2011-02-05 12:00 UTC"]]
-
-A year of the Hurd: *2010*.
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="
-[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-
-Originally published in {{$gnu#gnustatus-2011-01}}.
-
-From Olaf Buddenhagen, Arne Babenhauserheide, Thomas Schwinge: Yeah,
-that's quite right: the GNU Hurd project is still alive!
-
-According to our mission statement, the goal is creating *a
-general-purpose kernel suitable for the GNU operating system, which is
-viable for everyday use, and gives users and programs as much control
-over their computing environment as possible*.  It has a unique
-multi-server microkernel-based architecture---bringing advanced
-operating system research to the mainstream.  More concretely, it's a
-collection of user-space server processes that run on the GNU Mach
-microkernel.
-
-The Hurd doesn't fully deliver on the *everyday usability* goal
-yet, but it is seeing continuous improvement---and 2010 has been no
-exception.  Let's take a look at the progress throughout the year.
-
-  * 
-Apart from having done a lot of other work, Samuel Thibault, our Jack
-of all trades, merged his development branch that added Xen domU
-support to GNU Mach, which makes it possible to run a GNU/Hurd system
-as a Xen guest.  Development of this started in 2007, and since then
-it has been heavily tested by using it for the Debian GNU/Hurd build
-servers, most of our public GNU/Hurd systems,
-<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/public_hurd_boxen.html>, and the
-Hurd project's wiki web server.
-
-  * 
-We had Zheng Da work on a new hardware device driver framework, which
-is based on the Dresden L4 (Fiasco) group's DDE project, and allows
-running modern Linux kernel drivers as user-space server processes.
-Many network cards already work perfectly with this new framework.
-(It has not yet been integrated into the mainstream Hurd code base, so
-it needs to be compiled and set up by hand.)  Other driver classes,
-such as hard disk controllers, will require further work.
-
-  * 
-As in the previous years, we again participated in the Google Summer
-of Code 2010.  Olaf Buddenhagen is our main guy for organizing this.
-
-    Jérémie Koenig ported the modern Debian Installer to Debian
-GNU/Hurd.  Installation images using the new installer are replacing
-the previous CD images, which were using an installer based on the old
-Debian boot floppies (and running under the Linux kernel)---Philip
-Charles has been maintaining these single-handedly for almost ten
-years!  The new installer images are available from
-<http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/>.
-
-    Emilio Pozuelo Monfort was investigating specific compatibility
-problems exposed by the extensive test suites coming with some
-software packages.  Emilio's analysis uncovered a number of
-programming errors in the Hurd code, and he fixed several of them.  As
-these typically affected other programs too, this improved stability
-and compatibility in general.
-
-  * 
-Jérémie Koenig created a new implementation of a `procfs`
-translator, which is considerably more robust and efficient than the
-previous one.  Tools such as `top` can now be used without
-problems.
-
-    Some other translators (`gopherfs`, `netio`,
-`tarfs`) which have been created by external contributors in
-the past have been fixed up by Manuel Menal, and packaged in Debian.
-Thus, some of the results of Hurd's extensible architecture are now
-easier to access, and these updated translators can serve as examples
-for other developers to implement their own ideas.
-
-  * 
-In addition to various general stability, compatibility, and
-portability fixes, several people (Samuel Thibault, Pino Toscano,
-Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, and others) have been working on fixing issues
-with specific Debian packages.  So far, about 68% of all Debian
-packages are also available for Debian GNU/Hurd.
-
-  * 
-Michael Walker started the Arch Hurd distribution, and together with
-other enthusiastic Arch developers (Allan McRae, Matthias Lanzinger,
-Alexander Preisinger, Stephen Gilles, Diego Nieto Cid) they got it
-working in an amazingly short amount of time, both as an installable
-system, and a live CD.  So now there is a choice between two
-well-featured distributions for the Hurd.  These new people of course
-also help forwarding Hurd development in general---Diego in particular
-contributed various patches to the Hurd console and other components.
-
-  * 
-Carl Fredrik Hammar finished and presented his thesis, *Generalizing
-mobility for the Hurd*,
-<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-01/msg00078.html>,
-and passed with distinction.
-
-This is a very short digest of what happened in the last year.  You
-can read our regular *Month of the Hurd* at
-<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news.html>, or by subscribing to
-our RSS feed at <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/index.rss>.
-
-If you are interested, for example, in doing a university project on a
-multi-server microkernel-based operating system, or if you are
-interested in contributing to Hurd development in general, please see
-<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/contributing.html>.  Or just
-talk to us at <bug-hurd@gnu.org> or the `#hurd` IRC
-channel on freenode.
-
----
-
-French article by Manuel Menal, [*Gnu : L'année 2010 du
-Hurd*](http://linuxfr.org/news/lann%C3%A9e-2010-du-hurd).
-
-"""]]
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2011-03-26 14:20 UTC"]]
-
-The **Google Summer of Code 2011** is on!  If you're a student, consider
-applying for a GNU Hurd project -- details to be found on our
-*[[community/GSoC]] page*.
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2011-04-01 08:30 UTC"]]
-
-[[!meta title="2011-04-01: GNU/Hurd 0.401 is released!"]]
-
-We'd like to pass on these marvelous news from our Release Management
-Team, headed by Release Manager Samuel Thibault:
-
-> Hello,
-> 
-> There are rumors that Duke Nukem Forever will actually be released in
-> Apr^WMa^WJune 2011, so there's no escape for the Hurd any more, we had
-> to finish and release. There has been considerable progress lately,
-> so it is with great pleasure that the Hurd maintainers team decided
-> to release *version 0.401 of the GNU/Hurd Operating System*. As the
-> version number and image size suggest, this is only a small preview
-> of course, but we expect GNU/Hurd to be of production-quality within
-> the third millenium, to be sure.
-> 
-> A *LiveCD demo* is available on
-> <http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-0.401/hurd-0.401.iso>
-> and can be trivially tried using
-> `qemu -cdrom hurd-0.401.iso`
-> 
-> We hope that you will appreciate its features and speed.
-> 
-> Are you interested in contributing to the GNU Hurd project?  Just
-> request an shell account on one of our servers and get started.
-> 
-> <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/public_hurd_boxen.html>
-> 
-> It is also worth noting that like in previous years, GNU/Hurd runs
-> for the GSoC program, details can be found on
-> 
-> <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/gsoc.html>
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-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2011-05-02 09:30 UTC"]]
-
-[[!meta title="2011-05-02: Introducing FOSS Factory -- a Bounty System for GNU Hurd Work"]]
-
-> Hey, I have more money than time or programming skills, and I'd like to help
-> GNU Hurd development specifically -- how can we arrange for this, where can I
-> donate money for GNU Hurd development?
-
-If you're dwelling on such thoughts, here is the answer; here you can donate
-money for GNU Hurd development.
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Read on."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="
-[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-
-As its principal idea, [FOSS Factory](http://www.fossfactory.org/), means to
-serve as a hub and organizational platform for connecting Free/Open Source
-Software developers with monetary sponsors.  From
-<http://www.fossfactory.org/aboutus.php>:
-
-[[!img donate/foss_factory/logo.png align=right link=no]]
-
-> FOSS Factory's mission is to accelerate the advancement of free/open source
-> software by helping people collaborate on the design, funding, and
-> development of innovative software ideas.  All software solutions produced
-> using our system are released under free/open source licenses.  Our unique
-> model brings the best of innovators from both the entrepreneurial and FOSS
-> worlds together to solve real world problems using the mass resources of the
-> FOSS community.
-
-In very general words, their modus operandi is that the community (including
-the monetary sponsors) works together with the developers on splitting up tasks
-into suitable and assessable sub-projects as necessary, and then act as the
-reviewing instance, deciding on such sub-projects' success (and payment,
-successively).  For more details see their [System
-Overview](http://www.fossfactory.org/overview.php).
-
-For now, we can assume that the amount of money to be made by working on a GNU
-Hurd task in this framework is likely to be a symbolic amount only, rather than
-being representative for the real effort that needs to be invested.  Software
-development is expensive, mostly due to the amount of time that is needed for
-completing any non-trivial task.  Instead, these bounties should be regarded as
-an attraction/reward, perhaps also simply as a motivation for a developer to
-focus on one specific problem, and bringing it to completion.
-
-Working on a task and/or suggesting/donating for a new task.
-
-In principle, any Hurd-related development task is applicable (for example,
-from the [[GSoC project ideas|community/gsoc/project_ideas]], or from the
-[[open_issues]] list), but it is of course recommendable to match sponsors'
-ideas with those of the developers and maintainers.  For this, if you want to
-sponsor a project, but don't know which one to choose, or if you want to work
-on a bounty that is not yet listed on the site, we suggest that you talk to us
-first, either publically on the [[bug-hurd mailing
-list|mailing_lists/bug-hurd]] or privately on <hurd-maintainers@gnu.org>, if
-you prefer.
-
-Both for supporting (donating) as well as claiming a bounty, you have to
-register [at their site](http://www.fossfactory.org/), and proceed from there.
-Please don't hesitate to ask [[Thomas Schwinge|tschwinge]] if you need help.
-
-Continue to explore the [[list of open bounties|tag/bounty]].
-
----
-
-This new installment is in no way meant to depreciate the developers' current,
-un-paid, efforts.  It is also not meant to replace the volunteer work in the
-long term.  Neither is it meant to trick the [general FSF fund
-raising](http://donate.fsf.org/) out of a few dollars.  Instead, this is simply
-an additional means, a place for donators to give money for *Hurd-specific
-tasks*.
-
-Everyone of the existing crew is eligible to do coding under this bounty
-system, but we also hope to attract new developers -- in a sense similar to our
-many years of participation in the [[Google Summer of Code|community/gsoc]].
-
-Participation in/use of FOSS Factory's services has explicitly been set up
-personally by me, Thomas Schwinge; there is no inherent connection to the GNU
-Hurd maintainers.  This also means that each contribution that comes to life
-out of FOSS Factory's framework is subject to the same rules/review process as
-any other contribution has always been.
-
-Unless willing to discuss these publically, any concerns, questions, requests
-regarding this system can always be addressed directly to [[me|tschwinge]].
-
-"""]]
diff --git a/news/2011-q1.mdwn b/news/2011-q1.mdwn
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2011-04-05 21:30 UTC"]]
-
-A quarter of the Hurd, Q1 of 2011: *GSoC*, and *new faces*.
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="
-[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-
-We're again participating in the [[Google Summer of Code's 2011
-edition|community/gsoc]].  If you know someone who knows that her neighbor
-would be interested in getting mentored (by us) and paid (by Google) for
-working on a [[GNU/Hurd task|community/gsoc/project_ideas]], please hurry up:
-the *student application period* will end this Friday, 2011-04-08.
-
-There's further progress to be reported on the package porting front:
-additionally to the usual suspects, Svante Signell
-[has](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-01/msg00028.html)
-actively [started](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/02/msg00021.html)
-with [contributing](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/02/msg00036.html)
-by [fixing](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-03/msg00017.html)
-or [porting](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/01/msg00025.html) his
-[favorite](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/01/msg00062.html) packages
-[to](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/01/msg00051.html) GNU/Hurd.
-Welcome, Svante!
-
-Amongst other fixes, Diego Nieto Cid submitted his work for using [XKB's
-keymaps for the Hurd
-console](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-03/threads.html#00053).
-Of course, he was not the only one to contribute fixes; there's always our
-bunch of folks who appear every other month, or week, and send in some
-contribution.  Also, as we ask our GSoC applicants to submit patches in order
-to substantiate their application, we've seen some additional ones due to that.
-([[And you can, too.|contributing]])
-
-The Arch Hurd folks published their [Year of Arch Hurd
-report](http://www.barrucadu.co.uk/year-of-arch-hurd), wrapping up their
-progress, including GHAMP (GNU/Hurd, Apache, MySQL, and PHP), X.org, and their
-[Arch Hurd LiveCD](http://www.archhurd.org/gethurd.php#livecd).  We had
-published our [[YotH 2010|2010]], too.
-
-Finally we got a nice [recognition (or did they mean...) by
-xkcd](http://xkcd.com/844/), *How to Write Good Code*, subtitled *You can
-either hang out in the Android Loop or the HURD loop*.  Go figure!  ;-)
-
-"""]]
diff --git a/news/2011-q2-ps.mdwn b/news/2011-q2-ps.mdwn
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2011-10-13 10:00 UTC"]]
-
-A quarter of the Hurd, Q2 of 2011, PS: *GNU Hurd Truths and Myths*.
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="
-[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-
-After our last *[[Quarter of the Hurd, Q2 of 2011|2011-q2]]* has been picked
-up by a bunch of news sites, blogs, and so on, discussions and speculations
-have been running all over the net:
-
-  * {{$news/2011-q2#lwn}};
-  * {{$news/2011-q2#phoronix-1}};
-  * {{$news/2011-q2#phoronix-2}};
-  * {{$news/2011-q2#golem}};
-  * {{$news/2011-q2#h-online}};
-  * {{$news/2011-q2#innocenthacker}};
-  * {{$news/2011-q2#netzwelt}};
-  * {{$news/2011-q2#operation-tunnelbau}};
-  * {{$news/2011-q2#osnews}};
-  * {{$news/2011-q2#pro-linux}};
-  * {{$news/2011-q2#reddit-1}};
-  * {{$news/2011-q2#reddit-2}};
-  * {{$news/2011-q2#slashdot}};
-  * and a lot more.
-
-We are happy to see that there is
-considerable interest in the Hurd; but we also saw some
-misunderstandings, false rumors, and outdated information floating
-around.  Thus we will try to clarify the situation regarding some of
-the more common misunderstandings.
-
-  * **Debian GNU/Hurd strives to become an official Debian port**:
-    The Debian GNU/Hurd team is working hard to prepare a technology
-    preview/release candidate for the next Debian release (Wheezy), to
-    eventually become an official port alongside GNU/Linux and GNU/kFreeBSD --
-    but we don't know yet whether we will make it.  This is also the
-    understanding of (for example) Debian's spokesperson
-    {{$news/2011-q2#schmehl}}.
-    There is still substantial work necessary to indeed become a release candidate.
-    If you
-    want to help, please see our [[contributing]] page and the *to do*
-    list maintained on <http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/Hurd>.  We'd
-    be happy to have you on board!
-
-  * **Java support for GNU Hurd is nearby**: Jérémie Koenig is working
-    on making a versatile Java programming environment available on
-    GNU/Hurd as part of his
-    [[Google Summer of Code project|user/jkoenig/java]], focusing on
-    OpenJDK 7.  [Experimental
-    packages](http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/experimental/)
-    are already available.
-    Also, Java support in GCC (via GCJ/ECJ) has been available before,
-    which Jérémie also improved.
-
-  * **GNU Hurd supports X.Org, though a bit unstable**:
-    X support has been present for ages
-    (anyone remember
-    [1998's
-    XFree86](http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/hurd/hurd_video.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup)?),
-    and X.Org also has been supported for a long time (for example, GNU Hurd
-    support is explicitly mentioned in the [X.Org 7.2 release
-    announcement](http://www.x.org/wiki/Other/Press/X11R72Released?action=show&redirect=PressReleases%2FX11R72Released)).
-    It is true though that many modern graphic card drivers don't work anymore,
-    as they require DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) support,
-    so often only VESA is available.
-    Also, X on the Hurd is [[somewhat_unstable|hurd/status]].
-
-  * **GNU Hurd has weaker device driver support than the Linux kernel**:
-    Most of the drivers we use today were imported from Linux 2.0 series.
-    For network cards,
-    Linux 2.6.29 drivers are available through [[DDE|hurd/dde]] --
-    however, this is not fully integrated yet,
-    so using these drivers needs manual setup for now ([[hurd/dde/guide]]).
-    Support for other driver types is also possible with DDE in principle,
-    but it requires some not-trivial work for each additional class of drivers,
-    so this can take some time to become available.
-    (An additional benefit provided by DDE is that the device drivers run as
-    regular user-space processes --
-    unlike the old drivers we were using so far,
-    which are part of the underlying GNU Mach microkernel.)
-
-  * **The Hurd has SMP, but needs support for new chipsets**:
-    Both GNU Mach (the microkernel used by the Hurd),
-    and the Hurd servers themselves come with SMP support.
-    However, GNU Mach [[misses drivers for modern SMP chipsets|faq/smp]], and
-    there are also some SMP-related bugs in the implementation,
-    so further work is needed
-    for the Hurd to take advantage of multicore processors.
-
-  * **Installation can still be challenging**:
-    Please [[take notice|http://xkcd.com/293/]] of the
-    [README file](http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/YES_REALLY_README.txt) --
-    just like with any software in development,
-    there are some known pitfalls to avoid.
-    (Or better yet, help to fix.)  :-)
-    Alternatively, you can simply use the the
-    [preinstalled
-    image](http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/debian-hurd.img.tar.gz)
-    in QEMU/KVM/VirtualBox/...
-
-  * **GNU Hurd is not the same as GNU/Hurd**:
-    The GNU project set out in 1983 to create a complete free operating system.
-    When a distribution such as Debian combines their GNU-based userland
-    with the GNU kernel (named [[*GNU Hurd*|hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd]]),
-    the result is more or less a full GNU system.
-    However, such third-party distributions are distinct
-    from what an official complete GNU system release would be;
-    and thus we often call them *GNU/Hurd* for clarity, similar to *GNU/Linux*
-    or *GNU/kFreeBSD*.
-
-  * **Performance**:
-    The benchmarks conducted by Phoronix (as reported by
-    {{$2011-q2#phoronix-3}}) (Phoronix/Michael: thanks for doing these!)
-    attest very good performance to the Hurd.
-    Keep in mind though that these benchmarks were almost completely CPU-bound,
-    so they essentially just confirm that we don't do anything stupid
-    regarding CPU initialization (cache setup, etc.).
-    The results would be different for benchmarks
-    that actually exercise the operating system functionality more.
-    The fact that the tests were performed in a virtualized environment,
-    might also have helped the results,
-    for example by mitigating the effects of our unoptimized I/O paths --
-    which are currently the major bottleneck in most situations.
-    Nevertheless, these results are a hint
-    that the extra IPC required in microkernel systems
-    [[doesn't necessarily hamper performance|ipc#performance]]
-    quite as much as often believed.
-    We are glad to see such solid benchmarks
-    help dispel some of the myths around the Hurd and other microkernel-based
-    systems.
-
-  * **Given the available manpower, the progress is very good**:
-    Over the past decade,
-    there were seldom more than [[*half a dozen developers* at any given
-    time|faq/how_many_developers]]
-    hacking on the Hurd, in their spare time --
-    not hundreds of paid developers like Linux has nowadays.
-    Considering this, the progress made is quite encouraging
-    with the system being [[pretty usable|hurd/status]] for many day-to-day tasks now.
-    It is generally understood that the ambitious architecture of the Hurd
-    requires a lot of effort to get it working at all,
-    but the recent progress shows that once the foundations are in place,
-    the Hurd design indeed allows the developers to be very productive.
-    To see the progress over the last few years, you can have a look at our 
-    [[news archive|news]].  If you're interested, you can find various ways of
-    [[contributing]].  We'd be happy to see you join in, because for the Hurd,
-    every single helping hand makes a big difference!
-
-"""]]
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!tag stable_URL]]
-
-[[!meta date="2011-07-03 17:30 UTC"]]
-
-A quarter of the Hurd, Q2 of 2011: *Graphical Installer*, *GSoC*, and *Debian*.
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="
-[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-
-[[!template id=note text="**Update**:
-
-[[*A quarter of the Hurd, Q2 of 2011, PS*|2011-q2-ps]] has been published."]]
-
-Jérémie Koenig started working on his [[Google Summer of Code
-project|user/jkoenig/java]]: bringing not only Java to the Hurd, but also
-fixing or adding missing parts in the Hurd's components along the way.  For
-example, he already contributed [a set of signal handling
-improvements](http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2011-06/threads.html#00119).
-
-Samuel Thibault
-[created](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-05/msg00189.html) the
-first Debian GNU/Hurd CD set with a graphical installer.  You can dowload it at
-[the usual place for Debian CD
-images](http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/).
-
-Amongst others, Samuel also [tracked down and
-fixed](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-05/msg00025.html) a port
-leak in `file_reparent`.  This one got visible on the Debian package builder
-machine.
-
-On the organizational side, there is now a real plan to release a Hurd variant
-of Debian with their next major release, Wheezy.  Expected towards the end of
-2012 or beginning of 2013, the Hurd-specific bits of that release effort's
-process are being tracked on <http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/Hurd>.  There
-is still a lot of work left to be done, but -- as everyone knows -- a real goal
-as well as a bit of pressure might help to actually get it done.  If you want
-to lend a helping hand in order to make this happen, [[porting
-packages|contributing#porting]] is a great way to get started and do something
-useful at the same time.
-
-Tanguy le Carrour offered to sponsor some Hurd work, and followed up on his
-offer by adding to the Hurd bounties that Thomas Schwinge had set up over at on
-FOSS Factory -- [[claim them if you can|2011-05-02-foss_factory]]!  It's not
-(not yet?) comparable to a Google Summer of Code student's salary, but a step
-into the right direction.  So, if you have more money than time and want the
-Hurd to advance, why don't you [[join Tanguy|2011-05-02-foss_factory]]?
-
-At the end of August, Hurd folks will be meeting at the [[GNU Hackers
-Meeting|community/meetings/ghm2011]] in Paris.  Samuel Thibault will be giving
-a talk (*GNU/Hurd, aka. Extensibility from the Ground*), and -- amongs others
--- Jérémie Koenig will be there too, ready to answer all the questions about
-his Java/Hurd Google Summer of Code work.
-
-"""]]
-
-
-[[!ymlfront data="""
-
-golem:
-
-  "Sebastian Grüner (golem): [Debian 7 kommt offiziell mit Hurd als
-  Kernel \[de\]](http://www.golem.de/1107/84947.html)"
-
-h-online:
-
-  "Dj Walker-Morgan (The H Open): [Hurd Progresses - Debian GNU/Hurd by end of
-  2012?](http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Hurd-Progresses-Debian-GNU-Hurd-by-end-of-2012-1279253.html)"
-
-innocenthacker:
-
-  "Amit Khajuria (Innocent Hacker): [Debian 7 might come in a GNU Hurd
-  version](http://www.innocenthacker.com/2011/07/debian-7-might-come-in-gnu-hurd-version.html)"
-
-lwn:
-
-  "Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier (LWN): [Signs of life from GNU
-  Hurd](http://lwn.net/Articles/452296/)"
-
-netzwelt:
-
-  "Markus Franz (netzwelt) [Debian 7.0 Wheezy: Erste Pläne für Hurd statt
-  Linux-Kernel
-  \[de\]](http://www.netzwelt.de/news/87551-debian-7-0-wheezy-erste-plaene-hurd-statt-linux-kernel.html)"
-
-operation-tunnelbau:
-
-  "Jens Reil: [Hurd kommt zusammen mit Duke Nukem
-  Forever. Fast. \[de\]](http://blog.operation-tunnelbau.de/archives/66-Hurd-kommt-zusammen-mit-Duke-Nukem-Forever.-Fast..html)"
-
-osnews:
-
-  "Thom Holwerda (OS News): [GNU Hurd Quarterly Status
-  Report](http://www.osnews.com/story/24942/GNU_Hurd_Quarterly_Status_Teport)"
-
-phoronix-1:
-
-  "Michael Larabel (Phoronix): [A Status Update On GNU Hurd: Java, Debian,
-  Money](http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTY2Nw)"
-
-phoronix-2:
-
-  "Michael Larabel (Phoronix): [Coming Up: Benchmarks Of GNU
-  Hurd](http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTY3NQ)"
-
-phoronix-3:
-
-  "Michael Larabel (Phoronix): [Test Driving GNU Hurd, With Benchmarks Against
-  Linux](http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=debian_gnu_hurd)"
-
-pro-linux:
-
-  "Hans-Joachim Baader (Pro Linux): [GNU Hurd will offiziell in nächste
-  Debian-Version
-  \[de\]](http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/17261/gnu-hurd-will-offiziell-in-naechste-debian-version.html)"
-
-reddit-1:
-
-  "TheSilentNumber (reddit): [RMS may finally shout \"It's alive!\" at GNU+HURD
-  thanks to
-  Debian](http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/j2ztr/rms_mlayout_finally_shout_its_alive_at_gnuhurd_thanks/)"
-
-reddit-2:
-
-  "mepper (reddit): [Debian now has concrete plans to bring GNU Hurd to the
-  larger community. It is expected to be released with the release of Debian
-  7.0 Wheezy towards the end of 2012 or beginning of
-  2013](http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ipxxt/debian_now_has_concrete_plans_to_bring_gnu_hurd/)"
-
-schmehl:
-
-  "Alexander \"Tolimar\" Reichle-Schmehl: [About Debian, The Hurd and Linux or
-  in short: Yes, we will still have a Linux
-  kernel](http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/hurd-not-default)"
-
-slashdot:
-
-  "timothy (Slashdot): [Watch Out Linux, GNU Hurd
-  Coming](http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/14/2141229/watch-out-linux-gnu-hurd-coming)"
-
-"""]]
diff --git a/news/2011-q3.mdwn b/news/2011-q3.mdwn
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2011-11-17 14:15 UTC"]]
-
-A quarter of the Hurd, Q3 of 2011: *Arch Hurd with DDE*, *Debian boxes*, *GHM
-talk* and *GSoC: Java*.
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="
-[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-
-In the third quarter of 2011, the Arch Hurd hackers [packaged DDE (Device
-Driver Environment)](http://www.archhurd.org/news/22/), so a subset of the
-Linux 2.6 device drivers can now easily be run as user-space processes on Arch
-Hurd, replacing GNU Mach's in-kernel device drivers.  (This has been possible
-before, too, but involved several [[manual steps|hurd/dde/guide]].)  At the
-time of writing, our DDE port supports several network cards, while for other
-driver types we will need to add further generic infrastructure.  Also, Arch
-Hurd had [a booth at
-FrOSCon](http://www.froscon.de/en/exhibitors/projekte.html#c1413) and [released
-a new Arch Hurd LiveCD](http://www.archhurd.org/news/24/), so new users can
-easily test the current state of the Arch flavor of the Hurd.
-
-Richard Braun contributed additional GNU Hurd instances: [[a *Debian buildd*, a
-*Debian porterbox*, and a *public Hurd box*|public_hurd_boxen]].  Especially
-the last one is important for *you*: after requesting an account, you can use
-it to test the Hurd without any own setup.
-
-Samuel Thibault sent a new [Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd
-porters](http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/07/msg00002.html)
-to keep the Debian folks up to date with our progres.  And it is quite good:
-thanks to the relentless work of our porters, you can now use [70 % of all
-Debian packages with the Hurd](https://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph-big.png),
-so we're getting closer to [the goal of finishing a Release Canditate in time
-for Debian Wheezy](http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/Hurd).  If you can, for
-example, port Debian packages and want to help the Hurd, this is the perfect
-time to get in contact and [port your favorite missing
-package](http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-devel-debian) to the Hurd.
-
-A different kind of status update was delivered by Samuel Thibault on the [[GNU
-Hacker Meeting (GHM) in Paris|community/meetings/ghm2011]].  We hope you enjoy
-watching the video of the {{$community/meetings/ghm2011#thibault_hurd}}.  He
-nicely explains how the simple yet powerful concept of a [[hurd/translator]]
-gives power to a system's less-priviledged users (that is, without `root`
-access), without any security implications, and how [[hurd/subhurd]]s and
-[[hurd/neighborhurd]]s compare to Linux containers.  *It's all about [freedom
-0](http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html)*.
-
-On the technical side, Thomas Schwinge improved the technical documentation of
-the [[I/O path|hurd/io_path]] when translators are involved, to make it easier
-for new developers to understand how all the different system components
-interact.  Amongst others, Guillem Jover, Fridolín Pokorný and Jonathan
-Neuschäfer
-[sent](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-08/msg00184.html)
-[many](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-08/msg00093.html)
-[patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-08/msg00030.html) for
-GNU Mach, improving stability, fixing memory leaks and generally cleaning up
-the code.
-
-Maksym Planeta finished a project he has been doing as a university task:
-replace GNU Mach's old zone memory allocator with a new [[!wikipedia
-slab_allocation desc="slab allocator"]] written by Richard Braun, who also
-mentored Maksym during the project.  [This
-allocator](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/gnumach.git/commit/?h=mplaneta/libbraunr/master&id=59c9da87375ad3c8401890ecd4f7f101093f2463),
-apart from being overally cleaner than the zone allocator, is meant to waste
-less memory than the zone allocator (less fragmentation and more memory can be
-reclaimed by the VM system), there are debugging/inspection features, and it's
-SPM-ready, thus readily usable once we get up-do-date SMP support in GNU Mach.
-It is now being tested and integrated.
-
-And last but definitely not least, Jérémie Koenig finished his Google Summer of
-Code project to [[improve Java support on GNU Hurd|user/jkoenig/java]].  All in
-all, he also [improved the Hurd signalling
-code](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-06/msg00073.html), ported
-OpenJDK and began designing and creating a [library for Java bindings for Mach
-and Hurd](https://github.com/jeremie-koenig/hurd-java) which already allows
-writing a [Hello World translator in
-Java](https://github.com/jeremie-koenig/hurd-java/blob/master/HelloMach.java).
-It is still pretty low-level, but it paves the way for extending the core of
-the Hurd with Java, which is one of the benefits of the Hurd's distributed
-multi-server architecture: different components of the operating system can be
-written in different programming languages; not just
-[C](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/hhg.html#An-Example-using-trivfs),
-but also C++, [[Common Lisp|user/flaviocruz]], and now Java -- and more to
-come.
-
-So if you want to help getting the Debian GNU/Hurd Release Candidate done, or
-want to dig deep into DDE to have more device drivers running as user-space
-processes, please [[get in contact|contact_us]] -- and maybe already grab the
-[[source code|source_repositories]].
-
----
-
-The **GNU Hurd** is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel.  It is a
-collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file
-systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are
-implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux).  [[More
-detailed|hurd/documentation]].
-
-**GNU Mach** is the microkernel upon which a GNU Hurd system is based.  It
-provides an Inter Process Communication (IPC) mechanism that the Hurd uses to
-define interfaces for implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the
-services a traditional operating system kernel provides.  [[More
-detailed|microkernel/mach/gnumach]].
-
-"""]]
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2012-03-21 19:30 UTC"]]
-
-A quarter of the Hurd, Q4 of 2011: *Nix-based builds* and *bounty: slab
-allocator merged*.
-[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
-text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
-else="
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-
-[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
-
-This quarter, Ludovic Courtès contributed a [continuously-built Nix-based QEMU
-image](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00042.html),
-raising the count of GNU/Hurd distributions to three: [[Debian
-GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]], [[hurd/running/Arch_Hurd]], and now
-[[hurd/running/Nix]].  His build is still pretty basic, but a step into the
-right direction: [[!wikipedia "continuous integration"]] is a great facility
-for automated testing.
-
-Samuel Thibault followed suit with a [new Debian GNU/Hurd disk
-set](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00095.html) as a christmas
-gift, and
-[identified](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00095.html) three
-easy porting cases with solutions:
-
-  * undefined reference to `dl_*`: add `-ldl` for building
-  * undefined reference to `main`: missing `gnu*` case in the linking part of
-    `configure.ac` or `.in`
-  * undefined reference to `clock_gettime` or `crypt`: add `-lrt` or `-lcrypt`
-
-These should help all those who want to help [[porting_packages|hurd/porting]].
-
-Maksym Planeta and Richard Braun [finished
-integration](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-12/msg00046.html)
-of the slab allocator.  From [[IRC]], freenode, #hurd, 2011-11-14:
-
-    <braunr> there shouldn't be any noticeable difference [...]
-    <braunr> a bit less fragmentation  
-    <braunr> more memory can be reclaimed by the VM system  
-    <braunr> there are debugging features  
-    <braunr> it's SMP ready  
-    <braunr> and overall cleaner than the zone allocator  
-    <braunr> although a bit slower on the free path (because of
-      what's performed to reduce fragmentation)  
-    <braunr> but even "slower" here is completely negligible
-
-This also
-[concludes](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00140.html)
-our first [[FOSS Factory|donate#FOSS_Factory]] project -- one [[tag/bounty]]
-has been redeemed, more are waiting.
-
-Sergio Lopez documented his work on
-[[better_memory_management_and_memfs|Sergio_Lopez]], making it easier for other
-hackers to join in working on that topic.
-
-Our hackers also used the quarter for porting a good number of packages and
-fixing bugs.  After fixing quirks in the Hurd's memory management system,
-Sergio Lopez [reported success building
-webkitgtk+](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00025.html), whose
-build stresses the available memory resources on a 32-bit architecture to a
-large extent.  Svante Signell was busy, too:
-[pax](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00105.html),
-[abiword](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00035.html),
-[syslog-ng](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00060.html),
-[ecl](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00058.html),
-[fakeroot](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00022.html),
-[daemon](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00025.html), and
-[procps](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00046.html),
-[e2fsprogs' quota](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00015.html).
-Samuel Thibault handled
-[packagekit](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00071.html),
-[evolution](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00070.html),
-[emacs23](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00018.html),
-[gcc-4.7](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00065.html), and
-[iceweasel
-(firefox)](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00080.html).  Bouju
-Alain [submitted a
-patch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00079.html) to
-support `/proc/cpuinfo`.  Ludovic Courtès contributed a patch to [allow for
-`/hurd/init` being
-symlink](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00032.html),
-made the Hurd [build with glibc
-2.14+](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00025.html), and
-[worked with the GNU coreutils
-team](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00067.html) on a
-few issues.  Pino Toscano improved [`recvfrom` with `NULL` address
-ports](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00161.html).
-Maksym Planeta continued working on
-[tmpfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00118.html).
-Samuel Thibault turned `/dev/random` and `/dev/urandom` into [native
-translators](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00092.html),
-modernized [libtool's
-configuration](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00073.html),
-[mknod's cleanup in error
-cases](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00070.html),
-[fixed POSIX 2008
-visibility](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-12/msg00004.html),
-and fixed an [[!debbug 645285 desc="issue in `setresuid` that broke `sudo`"]].
-[Pino
-Toscano](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00013.html) and
-[Thomas
-Schwinge](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00020.html)
-improved key handling in libpthread.  Guillem Jover [fixed Mach's `int`
-vs. `long`
-discrepancy](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00053.html), which
-takes us the first step towards [[porting the system to
-x86_64|open_issues/64-bit_port]].
-
-If you want to join us in our journey to realize more of the promises of the
-architecture of the Hurd, please [[get in contact|contact_us]] -- and maybe
-already grab the [[source code|source_repositories]] and have fun hacking on
-Free Software!
-
----
-
-The **GNU Hurd** is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel.  It is a
-collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file
-systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are
-implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux).  [[More
-detailed|hurd/documentation]].
-
-**GNU Mach** is the microkernel upon which a GNU Hurd system is based.  It
-provides an Inter Process Communication (IPC) mechanism that the Hurd uses to
-define interfaces for implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the
-services a traditional operating system kernel provides.  [[More
-detailed|microkernel/mach/gnumach]].
-
-"""]]
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-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="2012-03-21 20:00 UTC"]]
-
-The **Google Summer of Code 2012** is on!  If you're a student, consider
-applying for a GNU Hurd project -- details to be found on our
-*[[community/GSoC]] page*.