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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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).
diff --git a/news/2002-01-19.mdwn b/news/2002-01-19.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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>
diff --git a/news/2002-02-18.mdwn b/news/2002-02-18.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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.
diff --git a/news/2002-03-08.mdwn b/news/2002-03-08.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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
diff --git a/news/2002-03-23.mdwn b/news/2002-03-23.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+Added the [[hurd/Hurd_Hacking_Guide]] to the documentation section.  Thanks to
+Wolfgang Jährling for providing this introduction into GNU/Hurd and Mach
+programming!
diff --git a/news/2002-05-05.mdwn b/news/2002-05-05.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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.
diff --git a/news/2002-05-18.mdwn b/news/2002-05-18.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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.
diff --git a/news/2002-05-24.mdwn b/news/2002-05-24.mdwn
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+++ b/news/2002-05-24.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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.
diff --git a/news/2002-05-28.mdwn b/news/2002-05-28.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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.
diff --git a/news/2002-06-22.mdwn b/news/2002-06-22.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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.
diff --git a/news/2002-08-16.mdwn b/news/2002-08-16.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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.
diff --git a/news/2002-10-03.mdwn b/news/2002-10-03.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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.
diff --git a/news/2002-10-03_2.mdwn b/news/2002-10-03_2.mdwn
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+++ b/news/2002-10-03_2.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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.
diff --git a/news/2002-10-19.mdwn b/news/2002-10-19.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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>
diff --git a/news/2002-11-18.mdwn b/news/2002-11-18.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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.
diff --git a/news/2003-01-18.mdwn b/news/2003-01-18.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2003, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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.
diff --git a/news/2003-02-14.mdwn b/news/2003-02-14.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2003, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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.
diff --git a/news/2003-07-02.mdwn b/news/2003-07-02.mdwn
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+++ b/news/2003-07-02.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2003, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2003, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+GNU/LinuxTag 2003 is now over and since there was a talk given about
+the Hurd, a demo GNU/Hurd machine running and the sale of Hurd
+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!
diff --git a/news/2003-08-21.mdwn b/news/2003-08-21.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2003, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+Added a link to Patrick Strasser's <A
+HREF="http://www.htu.tugraz.at/~past/hurd/global/">the Hurd Source
+Code Cross Reference</A> in all the "Source code" sections.
diff --git a/news/2005-01-28.mdwn b/news/2005-01-28.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2005, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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.
diff --git a/news/2005-09-20.mdwn b/news/2005-09-20.mdwn
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+++ b/news/2005-09-20.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2005, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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.
diff --git a/news/2006-04-27.mdwn b/news/2006-04-27.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2006, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+<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>
diff --git a/news/2007-01-07.mdwn b/news/2007-01-07.mdwn
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+++ b/news/2007-01-07.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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.
diff --git a/news/2007-01-14.mdwn b/news/2007-01-14.mdwn
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+++ b/news/2007-01-14.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+<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>
diff --git a/news/2007-03-14.mdwn b/news/2007-03-14.mdwn
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+++ b/news/2007-03-14.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+<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>
diff --git a/news/2007-10-01.mdwn b/news/2007-10-01.mdwn
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+++ b/news/2007-10-01.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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.
diff --git a/news/2007-10-12.mdwn b/news/2007-10-12.mdwn
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+++ b/news/2007-10-12.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+Stefan Siegl added [[support_for_IPv6_networking|hurd/translator/pfinet/ipv6]]
+to the *pfinet* translator.
diff --git a/news/2008-02-11.mdwn b/news/2008-02-11.mdwn
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+++ b/news/2008-02-11.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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.
diff --git a/news/2008-03-19.mdwn b/news/2008-03-19.mdwn
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+++ b/news/2008-03-19.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+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.
diff --git a/news/2008-09-11.mdwn b/news/2008-09-11.mdwn
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+++ b/news/2008-09-11.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+Please see [[the_community/gsoc_page|community/gsoc]] for information about how
+our **Goggle Summer of Code 2008 participation** worked out.  **Congratulations
+to both students and mentors!**