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diff --git a/news/2010-04-30.mdwn b/news/2010-04-30.mdwn index 9ff03044..f3e6f3d5 100644 --- a/news/2010-04-30.mdwn +++ b/news/2010-04-30.mdwn @@ -13,55 +13,81 @@ Will be set by tschwinge when publishing. [[!meta date="YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC"]] --> -A month of the Hurd: *Arch Hurd on Hardware*, *X.org out of the box*, *new debian qemu image* and *GSoC students*. +A month of the Hurd: *Arch Hurd*, *updated Debian GNU/Hurd QEMU image*, and *GSoC students*. [[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]""" else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] [[!cut id="full_news" text=""" -> This month the Arch Hurd team -> reported the first instance of Arch Hurd -> [running on real hardware](http://www.archhurd.org/news/11) (and uploaded -> [a photo](http://wiki.archhurd.org/wiki/User:Giselher#ArchHurd_on_a_real_PC) as evidence). -> -> Also the fix from *Samuel Thibault* got included in libxcb1, so X.org -> [works out of the box again](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/04/msg00034.html) with -> a simple startx and *Philip Charles* -> [extended his offerings](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/04/msg00019.html) -> with an updated *GRUB usb stick for booting Debian/Hurd*. - -> And mainly thanks to *Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez* we now have a -> [new qemu image](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/04/msg00098.html) -> Which runs out of the box via `qemu -hda debian-hurd-17042010-qemu.img`. -> -> Now to the GSoC news: we got -> [3 students](http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/list_projects/google/gsoc2010) -> working on the Hurd this year: -> ->> *Jeremie Koenig* mentored by *Samuel Thibault* will be working on adapting the debian-installer to ->> [produce working Debian GNU/Hurd installation images](http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/debian/t127230758239) ->> so we can more easily offer up to date disc-sets ->> ([details](http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2010/HurdDebianInstaller/JeremieKoenig)). ->> ->> Also *Emilio Pozuelo Monfort* mentored by *Fredrik Hammar* will work on the ->> possibly boring yet extremely valuable task of ->> [fixing compatibility problems exposed by projects testsuites](http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/gnuproject/t127230759396) ->> ([[details|community/gsoc/project_ideas/testsuites]]). -> ->> And finally *Karim Ahmed* mentored by *Sergio Lopez* will work on ->> [Tuning the VM Subsystem in GNU/Hurd](http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/gnuproject/t127230759587) ->> to bring the virtual memory management in Hurd/Mach up to date ->> ([[details|community/gsoc/project_ideas/vm_tuning]]). -> -> So we had quite an exciting month with many starting threads, -> which makes this the perfect time to -> subscribe to our [[mailing_lists]] (bug-hurd and debian-hurd are the main lists) -> and see the Hurd make another leap forward :) -> -> We’d be happy to see you sign up and -> contribute towards making the Hurd usable for everyone -> ([[our_mission|community/weblogs/antrik/hurd-mission-statement]]). - -<!-- Handled debian-hurd until 2010-04-28. --> +> The Arch Hurd folks keep [making good +> progress](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-hurd/2010-04/msg00003.html): +> their count of available packages keeps increasing, and one of their team +> reported the first instance of Arch Hurd [running on real +> hardware](http://www.archhurd.org/news/11) (and uploaded [a +> photo](http://wiki.archhurd.org/wiki/User:Giselher#ArchHurd_on_a_real_PC) as +> evidence). + +> Of course, our Debian port is still progressing, too: 66% of all Debian +> packages [are currently available for Debian +> GNU/Hurd](https://buildd.debian.org/stats/hurd-i386.txt). + +> *Samuel Thibault*'s fix got included in libxcb1, so X.org again [works out of +> the box](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/04/msg00034.html) using a +> simple `startx`. + +> *Philip Charles* [extended his +> offerings](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/04/msg00019.html) with an +> updated *GRUB USB stick for booting Debian GNU/Hurd*. + +> *Carl Fredrik Hammar* proposed a patch to [faciliate debugging the startup of +> misbehaving +> translators](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-04/msg00037.html). + +> Mainly thanks to *Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez*, we now have a [new QEMU +> image](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/04/msg00098.html). It can be +> run with a simple `qemu -hda debian-hurd-17042010-qemu.img`. + +> *Thomas Schwinge* updated [our glibc maintenance +> repository](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/glibc.git/?h=tschwinge/Roger_Whittaker) +> to a recent version, including a bunch of the patches from the Debian glibc +> package (and these are meant to eventually be submitted upstream). After a +> long break, he as well +> [updated](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-04/msg00062.html) +> his [[toolchain_cross-compilation_script|hurd/building/cross-compiling]] to +> the current source code packages, and added C++ support. + +> On to the GSoC news: we got three students working on the Hurd this year: + +> * *Jeremie Koenig*, mentored by *Samuel Thibault*, will be working on +> adapting the Debian Installer to [produce working Debian GNU/Hurd +> installation +> images](http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/debian/t127230758239) +> so we can easily offer up to date disc-sets. +> ([Details](http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2010/HurdDebianInstaller/JeremieKoenig).) + +> * *Emilio Pozuelo Monfort*, mentored by *Carl Fredrik Hammar* (who was a +> GSoC student in 2007), will be working on the perceivedly boring, yet +> extremely valuable task of [fixing compatibility problems exposed by +> projects +> testsuites](http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/gnuproject/t127230759396). +> ([[Details|community/gsoc/project_ideas/testsuites]].) For starters, he +> already got a glibc patch [accepted +> upstream](http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2010-04/msg00046.html). + +> * *Karim Allah Ahmed*, mentored by *Sergio López*, will be working on +> [tuning the VM Subsystem in +> GNU/Hurd](http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/gnuproject/t127230759587) +> to bring the virtual memory management in Hurd/Mach up to date. +> ([[Details|community/gsoc/project_ideas/vm_tuning]].) + +> We'd be happy to see *YOU* sign up on our mailing lists +> ([[mailing_lists/bug-hurd]] and [[mailing_lists/debian-hurd]] are the main +> lists), and [[contribute|contributing]] towards making the Hurd usable for +> everyone, as written down in +> [[our_mission_statement|community/weblogs/antrik/hurd-mission-statement]]. +> Perhaps one of the unassigned projects (outside of the Google Summer of Code +> context) from our [[project_ideas_list|community/gsoc/project_ideas]] is fit +> for you? + """]] |