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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
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+A quarter of the Hurd: *Arch with DDE*, *Debian boxes*, *GHM talk*, *GNU Mach fixes* and *GSoC: Java*.
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+<!--basic structure of a MotH entry. Adapt, reduce and add points as needed. At the end, try to make the text flow as a unified whole.-->
+
+In the third quarter of 2011, the Arch Hurd Hackers [packaged DDE](http://www.archhurd.org/news/22/),
+so a subset of Linux 2.6 drivers can now be compiled on Arch Hurd to
+run in userspace. At the time of writing it supports network cards,
+while other driver-types still need their interfaces ported. Also they
+had
+[a booth at FrOSCon](http://www.froscon.de/en/exhibitors/projekte.html)
+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.
+
+Also Richard Braun contributed new Debian and KVM-based
+[[buildd,_porterbox_and_public_box|public_hurd_boxen]], making it
+easier to test the Hurd without much setup as well as improving debian
+packaging.
+
+Samuel Thibault wrote 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 the results of our work. And
+these are quite good: Thanks to the relentless work of our porters,
+you can now use
+[70% of debian packages with the Hurd](https://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph-big.png),
+so we’re coming closer towards
+[getting Hurd into Debian as a release arch](http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/Hurd). If
+you can 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 type of status update was delivered by Samuel Thibault on
+the GNU Hacker Meeting (GHM). Since the videos and slides from the GNU
+Hacker Meeting 2011 in Paris are
+[online](http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/), now, we hope you enjoy
+his talk on
+[GNU/Hurd, aka. Extensibility from the Ground (video)](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2011/Samuel_Thibault-GNU_Hurd.ogv)
+([slides](http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/slides/samuel-thibault-hurd.pdf)). He
+explains nicely how the simple concept of translators gives power to
+non-priviledged and casual users (once we get some of these :) )
+without security implications, and how Sub-Hurds and Neighbor-Hurds
+compare to Linux containers.
+
+    “It’s all about freedom #0”
+
+On the technical side, Thomas Schwinge improved the technical
+documentation of the [[hurd/io_path]] in translators to make it easier
+for new developers to start hacking and Guillem Jover, Fridolin
+Pokorny 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 cleaning up
+code.
+
+Additionally Maksym Planeta replaced GNU Mach’s old zone memory
+allocator with the new slab allocator from Richard Braun
+([integration commit](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/gnumach.git/commit/?id=50d073c5ef0feb1676606d0068abf626e8297cd7)),
+which should waste less memory than the zone allocator. Also it has a
+cpu cache level, so it should work faster on SMP systems, once we get
+up do date SMP CPU drivers for GNU Mach. It is now being integrated.
+
+And last but definitely not least, Jeremie Koenig finished his Google
+Summer of Code project to
+[Improve Java on Hurd](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/user/jkoenig/java.html). He
+[improved the Hurd signalling](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-06/msg00073.html),
+ported OpenJDK and created a
+[Java Hurd-Library](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 gets the count of supported languages to
+3:
+[C(++)](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/hhg.html#An-Example-using-trivfs),
+[[common_lisp|user/flaviocruz]] and Java.
+
+So if you want to help get the Hurd into Debian as a full release arch,
+so the power to the Hurd gives to casual users can actually get into
+the Hands of these, or dig dig deep into DDE to have more Linux
+drivers running in Userspace, please [[get_in_contact|contact_us]] -
+and maybe grab [[our_source_repos|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 GNU Hurd is based. It
+offers Inter Process Communication (IPC) which the Hurd uses to define
+interfaces for implementing the services an operating system needs
+from a full-featured kernel.  
+[[Read_more|microkernel/mach/gnumach]]
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