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diff --git a/news/2010-06-30.mdwn b/news/2010-06-30.mdwn index c14d377b..315cd4f7 100644 --- a/news/2010-06-30.mdwn +++ b/news/2010-06-30.mdwn @@ -8,33 +8,69 @@ 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"]] ---> +[[!meta date="2010-07-08 14:00 UTC"]] -A month of the Hurd: *initrd*, *clustered page-in* and *auth server fixes*. +A month of the Hurd: *initrd*, *clustered page-in*, and *a bunch of bug fixing*. [[!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 Jérémie Koenig wrote a -> [preliminary patch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00047.html) -> to add initrd support in Mach for the Debian installer. -> -> Also Karim Allah Amed added the -> [first patch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00023.html) -> to port the clustered paging-in from OSF Mach to GNU Mach which should improve the virtual memory performance of the Hurd. -> -> Mainly thanks to -> -> Additionally -> -> And Carl Fredrik Hammar added patches to improve the stability of the auth server ( -> [port death](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00003.html) and -> [null port](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00019.html)). - -<!-- Handled debian-hurd until yyyy-mm-dd. --> +> A bunch of patches have hit the mailing lists and source code repositories: + +> Jérémie Koenig posted a [preliminary +> patch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00047.html) to +> add initrd (initial ramdisk) support in GNU Mach for his [[Google Summer of +> Code|community/gsoc]] 2010 project: [[Debian Installer|jkoenig]]. With this +> patch, and some other patches that are still in flux, he ended up being able +> to install a [[Debian GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]] system using the Debian +> Installer -- which is the goal of his project. Patches being *in flux* means +> that there's still work left to be done to properly solve some issues, so +> there's no need to worry that Jérémie wouldn't have any work left until the +> GSoC ends. + +> Karim Allah Amed came up with the [first +> patch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00023.html) for +> porting the clustered paging-in code from OSF Mach to GNU Mach, which should +> improve the virtual memory performance of the Hurd. + +> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort got a bug in [glibc +> fixed](http://sources.redhat.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=2a50c07836d2750baf70442f8f760bf6cd43b3af), +> which unblocks a problem we've seen in [coreutils' +> `ln`](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29655), and also continued to make +> progress on other grounds. + +> Zheng Da +> [began](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-06/msg00003.html) +> [to](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-06/msg00005.html) +> [commit](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-06/msg00014.html) +> patches to make his [[DDE project|zhengda]] support block device drivers, +> apart from fixing some other issues, too. + +> Samuel Thibault [fixed memory +> leaks](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-06/msg00018.html) +> in [[`pfinet`|hurd/translator/pfinet]], which is the Hurd's TCP/IP networking +> unit. Even though that a crashed `pfinet` [[server|hurd/translator]] will be +> restarted upon its next use, having it eat up all system memory is to be +> avoided, of course -- and is corrected with these patches. + +> Carl Fredrik Hammar submitted patches to improve the stability of the auth +> server ([rendezvous port +> death](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00003.html) / +> [invalid rendezvous +> ports](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00019.html)). + +> Lastly, if you haven't seen it already: Richard Hillesley has posted an +> article [*GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost +> promise*](http://www.h-online.com/open/features/GNU-HURD-Altered-visions-and-lost-promise-1030942.html) +> that caused [quite](http://lwn.net/Articles/394295/) +> [a](http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ckjt2/gnu_hurd_altered_visions_and_lost_promise/) +> [bunch](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ckjud/the_hurd_altered_visions_and_lost_promise/) +> [of](http://www.osnews.com/comments/23511) +> [discussion](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1474941) -- some of it valid +> and constructive criticism, some of it less so. If *you* want to come in +> contact with us GNU Hurd developers, there are [[numerous options to contact +> us|contact_us]]! + """]] |