Added info on the patches to auth, exec and tmpfs and cleaned up a bit (thanks to antrik and youpi).

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-> This month Zheng Da 
+> This month [[Zheng_Da|user/zhengda]]
 > [reported](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00037.html)
 > on the state of porting DDE linux26 to the Hurd, 
-> which can improve the GNU Hurd Hardware support a lot: 
-
->> I tested pcnet32, ne2k-pci, rtl8139, e1000. pcnet32 works in
->> both VMWare and qemu. Only qemu emulates ne2k-pci and rtl8139 cards and both DDE
->> drivers work well in qemu. — [[Zheng_Da|user/zhengda]]
+> which can improve the GNU Hurd Hardware support a lot. 
+> The drivers emulated by qemu and vmware already work fine, 
+> but it still needs work to run on real hardware. 
 
 > Also Sergio Lopez 
 > [added some patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00106.html) 
-> to prevent thread storms when synchronizing large pagers in ext2fs. They should improve performance for high throughput situations. 
+> to prevent thread storms when synchronizing large pagers in ext2fs. They should improve performance when many files are accessed at the same time. 
+
+> And Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, Carl Fredrik Hammar and others developed some patches (
+> [auth](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00003.html), 
+> [exec](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00108.html), 
+> [tmpfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00076.html), 
+> … )
+> to fix or improve the semantics of various internal hurd servers, 
+> to avoid some bugs or improve performance, 
 
 > Additionally 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. 
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 > And the [scheduled IRC meetings for Google Summer of code](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00148.html) are continuing on Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30 UTC. If you want to catch up on them, you can have a look at the [channel logs](http://richtlijn.be/~larstiq/hurd/). 
 
-> <small>*PS: As the amount of new developments on the Hurd has increased quite a bit since the start of the ‘Month of the Hurd’, these news are only a selection of the items you can already test yourself. There’s more in our [[mailing_lists]]. The rough criterium for the Month of the Hurd is “can you already test it and can I say why it is great for the Hurd at large?” — [[Arne_Babenhauserheide|community/weblogs/ArneBab]]*</small>
+> <small>*PS: As the amount of new developments on the Hurd has increased quite a bit since the start of the ‘Month of the Hurd’, these news are only a selection of the items you can already test yourself. There’s more in our [[mailing_lists]]. The rough criterium for the Month of the Hurd is “can you already test it and can I say why it is great for the Hurd at large?” There definitely is stuff I don’t understand well enough to explain here… — [[Arne_Babenhauserheide|community/weblogs/ArneBab]]*</small>
 
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