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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
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+[[!meta date="2009-12-31 17:33 UTC"]]
+
+A month of the Hurd: *official Xen domU support*, *DDE*, *porting*, and *FOSDEM 2010*. 
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+
+> This month Samuel Thibault [merged his development branch into GNU Mach's
+> master
+> branch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-12/msg00058.html) --
+> meaning that his [[GNU Mach Xen domU
+> port|microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen]] is now part of the official
+> sources.  Only the [[microkernel (GNU Mach)|microkernel/mach/gnumach]] needed
+> to be extended, and no changes were needed in the Hurd, or glibc code bases.
+> He had started this port in 2007 already, but it has been in heavy use over
+> the last two years already, so merging it into the main source bases was long
+> overdue.
+
+> He also got the necessary Xen patches committed into Xen's unstable branch,
+> so that from Xen's 4.0 release on you'll be able to boot GNU/Hurd systems
+> using `pv-grub`, without the need to prepare a special bootstrap image (like
+> an initrd).
+
+> Of course, running GNU/Hurd systems in other virtualization environments is
+> possible too, but the Xen domU approach offers superior performance compared
+> to [[hurd/running/QEMU]]'s machine emulation, for example.
+
+> Samuel also spent some time on adding code for [detecting invalid (duplicate)
+> port
+> deallocations](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2009-12/msg00016.html),
+> and started fixing these, as well as he fulfilled his usual share of
+> miscellaneous bug fixing.
+
+> The [[DDE]] port of Zheng Da now [passes the first
+> tests](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-12/msg00060.html),
+> bringing us the first steps towards updated device drivers -- and much lower
+> overhead for maintaining them.
+
+> Now that the Debian GNU/Hurd build stats are again hosted on the [master
+> Debian build machine](https://buildd.debian.org/stats/), Debian developers
+> see their packages' build failures more prominently, and quite a few started
+> to fix their packages.
+
+> Thus, thanks to the [[hurd/running/debian/porting]] work of mainly Emilio Pozuelo
+> Monfort and Pino Toscano, users of the Hurd can get many more packages
+> directly via the [[Debian GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]] distribution.
+> Thanks to their and the other porters' relentless work, the percentage of
+> available Debian packages [has reached
+> 66%](https://buildd.debian.org/stats/hurd-i386.txt), rising.  For a specific example,
+> they ported many GNOME packages, so that the `gnome-core` metapackage [is
+> installable
+> again](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-12/msg00217.html).
+> Please test these and [[report back|mailing lists/debian-hurd]].
+
+> Thomas Schwinge started the planning for [[a GNU Hurd folks meeting at
+> FOSDEM|community/meetings/fosdem 2010]] on February 6th/7th 2010 at the
+> Université Libre de Bruxelles.
+
+> Guillem Jover jumped in and started [fixing GNU Mach build
+> warnings](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2009-12/msg00008.html)
+> -- meaning that Thomas Schwinge's evil plan finally worked out, when he
+> enabled `-Wall` in an October 2006 commit:
+> 
+>     +# Yes, this makes the eyes hurt.  But perhaps someone will finally take care of
+>     +# all that scruffy Mach code...  Also see <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5726>.
+>     +AM_CFLAGS += \
+>     +       -Wall
+
+> ---
+
+> The GNU Hurd team wishes a pleasant Year 2010 to everyone!
+
+"""]]