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+A month of the Hurd: *Arch Hurd*, *FOSDEM preparations* and a *thesis on mobile Hurd objects*. 
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+> This month saw the first booting version of an 
+> [Arch GNU Hurd](http://www.archhurd.org/), 
+> which seconds the distribution from 
+> [Debian](http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/) 
+> which already gives you 66% of the debian software archive.
+> 
+> Also we organized a meeting at FOSDEM, February 6th and 7th in Bruxelles, where 
+> [8 Hurd developers will meet](http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/community/meetings/fosdem_2010/). 
+> Six of us will stay in Hotel Astrid with the FSFE folks. 
+> On Sunday 7th, Olaf Buddenhagen will be giving two presentations in the 
+> [Alt-OS Devroom](http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/FOSDEM2010AltOSDevroomSchedule): 
+> *Why is Anyone Still Working on the GNU Hurd?* (10:30)
+> and *Porting KGI graphics drivers from Linux to GNU Hurd* (13:00).
+> 
+> And 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. 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.*
+> 
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