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@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ the GNU Hacker Meeting (GHM). Since the videos and slides from the GNU
Hacker Meeting 2011 in Paris are
[online](http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/), now, we hope you enjoy
his talk on
-[GNU/Hurd, aka. Extensibility from the Ground](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2011/Samuel_Thibault-GNU_Hurd.ogv)
+[GNU/Hurd, aka. Extensibility from the Ground (video)](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2011/Samuel_Thibault-GNU_Hurd.ogv)
([slides](http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/slides/samuel-thibault-hurd.pdf)). He
explains nicely how the simple concept of translators gives power to
non-priviledged and casual users (once we get some of these :) )
@@ -67,23 +67,23 @@ compare to Linux containers.
On the technical side, Thomas Schwinge improved the technical documentation of the
[[hurd/io_path]] in translators to make it easier for new developers to start hacking and Guillem Jover, Fridolin Pokorny and Jonathan Neuschäfer
-[sent](http://lists.gnu.org/bug-hurd/2011-08/msg00184.html)
-[many](http://lists.gnu.org/bug-hurd/2011-08/msg00093.html)
-[patches](http://lists.gnu.org/bug-hurd/2011-08/msg00030.html) for
+[sent](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-08/msg00184.html)
+[many](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-08/msg00093.html)
+[patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-08/msg00030.html) for
GNU Mach, improving stability, fixing memory leaks and cleaning up
code.
-Additionally Maksym Planeta replaced GNU Mach’s old zalloc memory
-allocator with the new balloc from Richard Braun
+Additionally Maksym Planeta replaced GNU Mach’s old zone memory
+allocator with the new slab allocator from Richard Braun
([integration commit](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/gnumach.git/commit/?id=50d073c5ef0feb1676606d0068abf626e8297cd7)),
-which handles slabs and should waste less memory than zalloc. Also
-balloc has a cpu cache level, so it should work faster on SMP systems,
-once we get up do date SMP CPU drivers for GNU Mach.
+which should waste less memory than the zone allocator. Also it has a
+cpu cache level, so it should work faster on SMP systems, once we get
+up do date SMP CPU drivers for GNU Mach. It is now being integrted.
And last but definitely not least, Jeremie Koenig finished his Google
Summer of Code project to
[Improve Java on Hurd](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/user/jkoenig/java.html). He
-[improved the Hurd signalling](http://lists.gnu.org/bug-hurd/2011-06/msg00073.html),
+[improved the Hurd signalling](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-06/msg00073.html),
ported OpenJDK and created a
[Java Hurd-Library](https://github.com/jeremie-koenig/hurd-java) which
already allows writing a