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diff --git a/news/2010-05-31.mdwn b/news/2010-05-31.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b06ad0c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2010-05-31.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 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"]] +--> + +A month of the Hurd: *thread storms*, *dde linux26*, *new live CD* and *IRC meeting schedule*. +[[!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 +> [reported](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00037.html) +> on the state of porting DDE linux26 to the Hurd, +> which can improve the GNU Hurd Hardware support a lot: + +>> I tested pcnet32, ne2k-pci, rtl8139, e1000. pcnet32 works in +>> both VMWare and qemu. Only qemu emulates ne2k-pci and rtl8139 cards and both DDE +>> drivers work well in qemu. — [[Zheng_Da|user/zhengda]] + +> Also Sergio Lopez +> [added some patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00106.html) +> to prevent thread storms when synchronizing large pagers in ext2fs. They should improve performance for high throughput situations. + +> Additionally Justus Winter created a [live CD](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00033.html) +> with an installation wizard in the spirit of the OpenBSD installer. +> He needs testers to improve it. + +> And the [scheduled IRC meetings for Google Summer of code](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00148.html) are continuing on Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30 UTC. If you want to catch up on them, you can have a look at the [channel logs](). + +> <small>*PS: As the amount of new developments on the Hurd has increased quite a bit since the start of the ‘Month of the Hurd’, these news are only a selection of the items you can already test yourself. There’s more in our [[mailing_lists]]. The rough criterium for the Month of the Hurd is “can you already test it and can I say why it is great for the Hurd at large?” — [[Arne_Babenhauserheide|community/weblogs/ArneBab]]*</small> + +"""]] |