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diff --git a/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn b/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn index f98e2ab1..7513b8c9 100644 --- a/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn +++ b/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn @@ -36,15 +36,18 @@ title: Latest news about GNU/Hurd Full name: Samuel Thibault Short abstract: -GNU/Hurd has a long-term vaporware reputation. Development has indeed been -relatively dormant for some time, but recent regain of interest has brought -interesting improvements, to the point that there will be a non-official release -of the GNU/Hurd variant of Debian Wheezy. +GNU/Hurd aims at being a general-purpose Operating System with a strong emphasis +on flexibility and freedom for the user. It has however a long-term vaporware +reputation. Development has indeed been relatively dormant for some time, but +recent regain of interest has brought interesting improvements, to the point +that there will be a non-official release of the GNU/Hurd variant of Debian +Wheezy, with about 75% of the Debian packages, including classical graphical +desktop application (gnome, gnumeric, firefox, ...) This talk will present to GNU/Hurd in general and its "translator" mechanism which provides strong flexibility to users and administrators, as well as demo it live. The subhurd/neighborhurd mechanism, a very natural way to provide -virtualization container support on GNU/Hurd, will also be presented. It will +virtualization container support on GNU/Hurd, will also be presented. We will also present recent developments, notably in terms of DDE device drivers run as userland processes, and discuss about maintenance of DDE. |