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diff --git a/news/2009-12-31.mdwn b/news/2009-12-31.mdwn index 199689c6..6077ee50 100644 --- a/news/2009-12-31.mdwn +++ b/news/2009-12-31.mdwn @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta updated="2009-12-31 00:00 UTC"]] -A month of the Hurd: *official Xen domU support*, *ddekit beginnings*, *FOSDEM 2010* and *SMP discussion*. +A month of the Hurd: *official Xen domU support*, *ddekit beginnings*, *porting*, *FOSDEM 2010* and *SMP discussion*. [[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]""" else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] @@ -28,7 +28,18 @@ else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] > > Also the ddekit port of Zheng Da now > [passes the first tests](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-12/msg00060.html), -> bringing us the first steps towards updated drivers. +> bringing us the first steps towards updated drivers - +> and much lower overhead for maintaining them. +> +> Mainly thanks to the [porting](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/debian/porting.html) +> work of Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Pino Toscano, +> users of the Hurd can get many more packages directly via debian. +> Thanks to their and other porters relentless work, +> the percentage of available debian packages +> [has reached 65%](http://buildd.debian-ports.org/stats/), +> rising. As concrete example, they ported many GNOME packages, +> so that the gnome-core metapackage +> [is installable again](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-12/msg00217.html). > > Additionally Thomas Schwinge started the planning for > [a GNU Hurd meeting at FOSDEM](http://www.thomas.schwinge.homeip.net/hurd-web/community/meetings/fosdem_2010.html] |