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diff --git a/news/2010-04-30.mdwn b/news/2010-04-30.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c4a388bd --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2010-04-30.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +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"]] +--> + +A month of the Hurd: *Arch Hurd on Hardware*, *X.org out of the box*, *new debian 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 get the virtual memory management in Hurd/Mach up to date +>> ([[details|community/gsoc/project_ideas/vm_tuning]]). +> +> So we had quite an exiting 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. --> +"""]] |