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diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn index 7f4711aa..a9282629 100644 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn +++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn @@ -28,8 +28,10 @@ else=" 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 +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. @@ -37,7 +39,7 @@ 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. +packaging. Samuel Thibault wrote a new [Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters](http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/07/msg00002.html) @@ -45,8 +47,9 @@ 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 +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. @@ -65,13 +68,15 @@ 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 +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. +[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 @@ -90,7 +95,8 @@ 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), +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 full release arch, @@ -99,19 +105,20 @@ 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 +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). +kernels (such as Linux). [[More_detailed|hurd/documentation]]. -[[GNU_Mach|microkernel/mach/gnumach]] 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. +**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.--> |