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diff --git a/news/2009-10-31.mdwn b/news/2009-10-31.mdwn index d3ede8f6..69978d9c 100644 --- a/news/2009-10-31.mdwn +++ b/news/2009-10-31.mdwn @@ -10,23 +10,40 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta date="2009-10-31 00:00 UTC"]] -[[!meta updated="2009-10-31 00:00 UTC"]] - -A month of the Hurd: *New LiveCDs* and further *git migration*. +A month of the Hurd: new *installation CDs*, further *Git migration*, +*porting*. [[!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 Philip Charles created a new [LiveCD](http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/current/) for the Hurd, -> which brings us a big step towards installing the Hurd from the Hurd -> (without the need of a Linux based installer). -> If you enjoy testing stuff, please give it a try. -> -> Also Thomas Schwinge migrated the [nsmux](http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/hurd/translator/nsmux/) -> and cl-hurd *(lisp bindings)* repos into -> our [git repositories on Savannah](https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=hurd), -> making them easier to access for other contributors. -> +> This month Philip Charles created a new [installation +> CD](http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/current/), the [L +> series](http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/current/README-L1-disc-set), +> for the Hurd, which brings us a big step towards installing the Hurd from the +> Hurd (without the need of a Linux-based installer). If you enjoy testing +> stuff, please give it a try. + +> On the same front, Michael Banck uploaded a new version of +> [crosshurd](http://packages.debian.org/sid/crosshurd) that makes it again +> possible to use this package for creating a GNU/Hurd system image directly +> from Debian unstable packages. + +> Also, Thomas Schwinge migrated Sergiu Ivanov's [[hurd/translator/nsmux]], +> [[Flávio Cruz|flaviocruz]]' cl-hurd *(clisp bindings)*, and Carl Fredrik +> Hammar [[hurd/libchannel]] repositories into our new [*incubator* Git +> repository](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/), making +> them easier to access for other contributors. + +> Our bunch of porters continued to make further Debian packages usable on +> GNU/Hurd: Pino Toscano worked on a lot of packages, and Wesley W. Terpstra +> made [mlton](http://packages.debian.org/sid/mlton) build -- together with +> Samuel Thibault, who first had to enhance [[GNU +> Mach|microkernel/mach/gnumach]] to support allocating more than 1 GiB of RAM +> to one user-space process, which mlton needs. +> On the go, Samuel also fixed a number of other bugs here and there, for +> example together with Eric Blake and Roland McGrath hashed out a difficile +> issue in the filesystem servers regarding POSIX conformance and system +> stability. """]] |