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diff --git a/news/2009-11-30.mdwn b/news/2009-11-30.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5c6d3e0f --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2009-11-30.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 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]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta date="2009-11-30 00:00 UTC"]] + +[[!meta updated="2009-11-30 00:00 UTC"]] + +A month of the Hurd: *network in userspace* and *grub2 from hurd*. +[[!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 Zheng Da ported the pcnet32 driver into user space +> and did some preliminary +> [performance tests](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-11/msg00144.html). +> The test results were mostly on par with the in-kernel driver, so they show +> that moving networking on the Hurd into user space can be done +> without losing (much) performance. +> +> Also thanks to Samuel Thibault, the latest grub2 package (1.97+20091125-1) +> [supports native installation](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2009/11/msg00095.html) +> from GNU/Hurd itself. Grub was originally designed +> [to allow booting of GNU/Hurd systems](http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#History), +> so this step brings it closer to its original purpose again. +> + +"""]] |