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+A month of the Hurd: *debian installer*, *compatibility*, *make dist* and *newssites*. 
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+[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
+
+> This month Jérémie Koenig got the 
+> [Debian installer (d-i) for the Hurd](http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-installer/) into
+> basic working state with a simple 
+> [4 step installation guide](http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-installer/README.txt)
+>  ([status mail](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/msg00158.html)). 
+> This gets us a big step towards easy installation and automated image creation. 
+> You can track Jérémie’s progress on his [[user_page|user/jkoenig]]. 
+> 
+> Also Emilio Pozuelo Monfort worked on improving the compatibility with 
+> third party programs via 
+> [changes to exec](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/msg00141.html)
+> and added support to 
+> [send file descriptors over Unix sockets](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/msg00145.html). 
+> Both will help getting more packages to compile and run in the Hurd. 
+
+> Additionally Ludovic Courtès 
+> [fixed make dist](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/msg00098.html) 
+> in console-client which allows easy tarball creation for uploading to ftp.gnu.org.
+
+> And the Hurd got onto bigger newssites again. First with an article focussing on failures 
+> [in the H](http://www.h-online.com/open/features/GNU-HURD-Altered-visions-and-lost-promise-1030942.html) and 
+> [heise (german)](http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/GNU-HURD-Veraenderte-Visionen-und-verworfene-Versprechen-1046753.html) 
+> and then with a 
+> [well researched article in LWN](http://lwn.net/Articles/395150/). 
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