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diff --git a/news/2010-01-31.mdwn b/news/2010-01-31.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..569fa7a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2010-01-31.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +[[!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="2010-01-31 00:00 UTC"]] + +[[!meta updated="2010-01-31 00:00 UTC"]] + +A month of the Hurd: *Arch Hurd*, *FOSDEM preparations* and a *thesis on mobile Hurd objects*. +[[!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 saw the first booting version of an +> [Arch GNU Hurd](http://www.archhurd.org/), +> which seconds the distribution from +> [Debian](http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/) +> which already gives you 66% of the debian software archive. +> +> Also we organized a meeting at FOSDEM, February 6th and 7th in Bruxelles, where +> [8 Hurd developers will meet](http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/community/meetings/fosdem_2010/). +> Six of us will stay in Hotel Astrid with the FSFE folks. +> On Sunday 7th, Olaf Buddenhagen will be giving two presentations in the +> [Alt-OS Devroom](http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/FOSDEM2010AltOSDevroomSchedule): +> *Why is Anyone Still Working on the GNU Hurd?* (10:30) +> and *Porting KGI graphics drivers from Linux to GNU Hurd* (13:00). +> +> And Carl Fredrik Hammar +> [finished and presented](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-01/msg00078.html) +> his thesis +> [Generalizing mobility for the Hurd](http://users.student.lth.se/cs07fh9/2009-hammar-hurd-mobility.pdf) +> and passed with distinction. Its abstract reads: +> *The GNU Hurd features mobile objects +> in its implementation of filesystem backing stores. +> This thesis investigates the +> limitations and security concerns +> these objects present, +> and how they can be overcome. +> This is done in preparation for new applications +> that feature mobile code and mobile objects. +> In addition, +> one such application is studied and implemented, +> in which mobile code is used to make +> the ioctl system call more extensible.* +> + +"""]] |