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diff --git a/news/2010-07-31.mdwn b/news/2010-07-31.mdwn index 4389fca9..68153c7a 100644 --- a/news/2010-07-31.mdwn +++ b/news/2010-07-31.mdwn @@ -8,39 +8,51 @@ 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]]."]]"""]] -<!-- Date when the news item is (to be) pulished (important for RSS feeds). -Will be set by tschwinge when publishing. -[[!meta date="YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC"]] ---> +[[!meta date="2010-08-10 17:30 UTC"]] -A month of the Hurd: *debian installer*, *compatibility*, *make dist* and *newssites*. +A month of the Hurd: *Thanks, Phil!*, *Debian Installer*, *compatibility*, and +*LWN article*. [[!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 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. +> Philip Charles, our 72 years old provider of Debian GNU/Hurd installation CDs +> [has now resigned](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/07/msg00020.html) +> from that position. This has lead to a flood of [public thank-you +> responses](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/07/msg00020.html#00021), +> and surely yet more of those have been sent privately. Phil, thanks again +> for providing the many installation images you've started producing [nearly +> ten years ago](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2000/08/msg00249.html)! -- +> oh, the joy of (not) uploading CD-size images using a 56k modem... -- and +> that have been the first choice for many of us to get a [[Debian +> GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]] system installed. + +> On the other hand, there's no need to worry about these news: Jérémie Koenig +> got the [Debian Installer for the +> Hurd](http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-installer/) into a basically working +> state; there is a simple [four step installation +> guide](http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-installer/README.txt). This brings us +> a big step forward towards easy installation of Debian GNU/Hurd and automated +> image creation. You can track Jérémie's progress on his [[user +> page|jkoenig]]. + +> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort also made progress with his Google Summer of Code +> work. For example, he posted a new iteration of his proposed [changes to +> exec](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/msg00141.html) as +> well as he added support for [sending file descriptors over Unix +> sockets](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/msg00145.html). +> These patches add features and improve compatibility to other systems, and +> thus help to get more software packages to work as expected on GNU/Hurd +> systems. + +> Ludovic Courtès [fixed `make +> dist`](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/threads.html#00107), +> which allows for easy tarball creation of the GNU Hurd sources. > We've been in the news [[last month|2010-06-30]] -- and this month yet again: -> LWN posted a well researched article on the status of the Hurd: Koen +> LWN posted a well-researched article on the status of the Hurd: Koen > Vervloesem: [*The Hurd: GNU's quest for the perfect > kernel*](http://lwn.net/Articles/395150/). |