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diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index de7b869b..00000000 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,128 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 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"]] ---> - -<!-- This is just a skeleton. Use it to create a new MotH. --> - -A quarter of the Hurd: *Arch with DDE*, *Debian boxes*, *GHM talk*, *GNU Mach fixes* and *GSoC: Java*. -[[!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=""" - -<!--basic structure of a MotH entry. Adapt, reduce and add points as needed. At the end, try to make the text flow as a unified whole.--> - -In the third quarter of 2011, the Arch Hurd Hackers [packaged DDE](http://www.archhurd.org/news/22/), -so a subset of Linux 2.6 drivers can now be compiled on Arch Hurd to -run in userspace. At the time of writing it supports network cards, -while other driver-types still need their interfaces ported. Also they -had -[a booth at FrOSCon](http://www.froscon.de/en/exhibitors/projekte.html) -and -[released a new Arch Hurd LiveCD](http://www.archhurd.org/news/24/), -so new users can easily test the current state of the Arch flavor of -the Hurd. - -Also Richard Braun contributed new Debian and KVM-based -[[buildd,_porterbox_and_public_box|public_hurd_boxen]], making it -easier to test the Hurd without much setup as well as improving debian -packaging. - -Samuel Thibault wrote a new -[Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters](http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/07/msg00002.html) -to keep the Debian Folks up to date with the results of our work. And -these are quite good: Thanks to the relentless work of our porters, -you can now use -[70% of debian packages with the Hurd](https://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph-big.png), -so we’re coming closer towards -[getting Hurd into Debian as a release arch](http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/Hurd). If -you can port debian packages and want to help the Hurd, this is the -perfect time to get in contact and -[port your favorite missing package](http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-devel-debian) -to the Hurd. - -A different type of status update was delivered by Samuel Thibault on -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 (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 :) ) -without security implications, and how Sub-Hurds and Neighbor-Hurds -compare to Linux containers. - - “It’s all about freedom #0” - -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/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 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 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 integrated. - -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/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 -[Hello World translator in Java](https://github.com/jeremie-koenig/hurd-java/blob/master/HelloMach.java). It -is still pretty low-level, but it paves the way for extending the core -of the Hurd with Java, which gets the count of supported languages to -3: -[C(++)](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/hhg.html#An-Example-using-trivfs), -[[common_lisp|user/flaviocruz]] and Java. - -So if you want to help get the Hurd into Debian as a full release arch, -so the power to the Hurd gives to casual users can actually get into -the Hands of these, or dig dig deep into DDE to have more Linux -drivers running in Userspace, please [[get_in_contact|contact_us]] - -and maybe grab [[our_source_repos|source_repositories]]. - ------- - -The **GNU Hurd** is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. -It is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to -implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and -other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar -kernels (such as Linux). -[[More_detailed|hurd/documentation]]. - -**GNU Mach** is the microkernel upon which GNU Hurd is based. It -offers Inter Process Communication (IPC) which the Hurd uses to define -interfaces for implementing the services an operating system needs -from a full-featured kernel. -[[Read_more|microkernel/mach/gnumach]] - -<!--see [[contributing/web_pages/news/writing_the_moth]] for additional information on writing the MotH.--> - -<!-- * [[toolchain/ELFOSABI_GNU]]--> - - -"""]] |