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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
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+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
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+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
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+
+[[!meta date="2013-05-21 23:20 UTC"]]
+
+Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 *released*!
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+[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
+
+It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the 
+**release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2013**.
+This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the Debian
+"wheezy" release (May 2013), so it is mostly based on the same sources.  It is *not* an
+official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release.
+
+The installation ISO images can be downloaded from
+[Debian Ports](http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/)
+in the usual three Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, DVD.  Besides the friendly
+Debian installer, a pre-installed disk image is also available, making it even easier to try
+Debian GNU/Hurd.
+
+Debian GNU/Hurd is currently available for the i386 architecture with more
+than 10.000 software packages available (more than 75% of the Debian archive, and more
+to come!).
+
+Please make sure to read the
+[configuration information](http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install),
+the [[FAQ]],
+and the [[translator primer|hurd/documentation/translator_primer]]
+to get a grasp of the great features of GNU/Hurd.
+
+Due to the very small number of developers,
+our progress of the project has not been as fast as other successful
+operating systems, but we believe to have reached [[a very decent state|hurd/status]], even with our limited resources. 
+
+We would like to thank all the people who have worked on GNU/Hurd [[over the past
+decades|history]].  There were not many people at any given time (and still not many people
+today, please [[join|contributing]]!), but in the end a lot of people have
+contributed one way or another. **Thanks everybody!**
+
+---
+
+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 a GNU Hurd system is based.  It
+provides an Inter Process Communication (IPC) mechanism that the Hurd uses to
+define interfaces for implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the
+services a traditional operating system kernel provides.  [[More
+detailed|microkernel/mach/gnumach]].
+
+"""]]