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| -rw-r--r-- | community/da.mdwn | 2 | ||||
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| -rw-r--r-- | community/weblogs/ArneBab/2008-06-17-latest-changes-in-the-hurd.mdwn | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | community/weblogs/ArneBab/2008-07-12-codeswarm-movies-for-the-hurd.mdwn | 19 |
4 files changed, 45 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/community/da.mdwn b/community/da.mdwn index 1daa279a..ad3aebc8 100644 --- a/community/da.mdwn +++ b/community/da.mdwn @@ -44,8 +44,6 @@ A filter translator is needed to enforce the policies between the interface and * Only one pfinet can connect to the translator at a time. -(to be continued) - --- ## The schedule diff --git a/community/gsoc.mdwn b/community/gsoc.mdwn index 340948a6..948a6e9c 100644 --- a/community/gsoc.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc.mdwn @@ -23,9 +23,14 @@ The selected projects are: * Usable procfs implementation * dtrace support -The community bonding period has begun now, and lasts till the summer session -starts by the end of May. Students are now preparing their projects, getting to -know the stuff they will work on, as well as... us, the Hurd community :-) +Special cheers go to Sergiu Ivanov, whom we unfortunately couldn't select +because he was impeded during the application phase, but who nevertheless is +working on his project (namespace-based translator selection) as a volunteer +with a dedication matching that of the selected students! + +The summer session has started by the end of May, and all the students are +making good progress. We are in good hopes of seeing five successful projects +at the end of this summer :-) ## '08 SoC students and interested non-students diff --git a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/2008-06-17-latest-changes-in-the-hurd.mdwn b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/2008-06-17-latest-changes-in-the-hurd.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b91cfd20 --- /dev/null +++ b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/2008-06-17-latest-changes-in-the-hurd.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +In the past few months the Hurd got quite many commits. + +I want to write a bit about the changes they brought, and what they mean to the Hurd. + +If some of my comments seem too 'simple' to you, just ignore them :) + +First we got many Bug fixes from Samuel Thibault, mainly in libpthread (multithreading), ext2fs and libdiskfs (both filesystem interaction). + +Then hurd-l4 (the port of the Hurd on the L4 kernel) seems to get quite much love by Neal H. Walfield (neal) at the moment. +Quite much is saying a bit to little: hurd-l4 looks steamingly active in the commits :) + +And there is the PyHurd project. It attempts to create a full binding to the GNU/Hurd API, so people should someday be able to, for example, create translators in Python. + +There's been more - a lot more in fact, but much of it is above my coding horizon, and this entry shall end someplace (it's late - too late :) ). + +Best wishes, +Arne + diff --git a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/2008-07-12-codeswarm-movies-for-the-hurd.mdwn b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/2008-07-12-codeswarm-movies-for-the-hurd.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4da349ee --- /dev/null +++ b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/2008-07-12-codeswarm-movies-for-the-hurd.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Today (OK, this night) I created some codeswarm movies to visualize the code history of the Hurd. + +What's particularly interesting to me in gnumach is the tschwinge - sthibaul effect in march 2008, where development suddenly seems to speed up enormeously. + +The code movies are created from the history of the cvs branches gnumach and hurd. + +The movies: +- [gnumach](http://draketo.de/filme/cc-nc-sa/gnumach_code_evolution.avi) +- [hurd](http://draketo.de/filme/cc-nc-sa/gnu_hurd_code_evolution_1_min.avi) + +in gnumach, red is the "kern", while in "hurd" red is stuff in "release". + +.*doc.* is dark blue and any stuff named .*linux.* is shown in a blue-green in +both. + +Also the hurd_wiki movie should be ready, soon :) + +Best wishes, +Arne |