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diff --git a/news/2010-07-31.mdwn b/news/2010-07-31.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a22e2d7d --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2010-07-31.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +[[!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: *debian installer*, *compatibility*, *make dist* and *newssites*. +[[!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 got the +> [Debian installer (d-i) for the Hurd](http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-installer/) into +> basic working state with a simple +> [4 step installation guide](http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-installer/README.txt) +> ([status mail](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/msg00158.html)). +> This gets us a big step towards easy installation and automated image creation. +> You can track Jérémie’s progress on his [[user_page|user/jkoenig]]. +> +> Also Emilio Pozuelo Monfort worked on improving the compatibility with +> third party programs via +> [changes to exec](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/msg00141.html) +> and added support to +> [send file descriptors over Unix sockets](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/msg00145.html). +> Both will help getting more packages to compile and run in the Hurd. + +> Additionally Ludovic Courtès +> [fixed make dist](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/msg00098.html) +> in console-client which allows easy tarball creation for uploading to ftp.gnu.org. + +> And the Hurd got onto bigger newssites again. First with an article focussing on failures +> [in the H](http://www.h-online.com/open/features/GNU-HURD-Altered-visions-and-lost-promise-1030942.html) and +> [heise (german)](http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/GNU-HURD-Veraenderte-Visionen-und-verworfene-Versprechen-1046753.html) +> and then with a +> [well researched article in LWN](http://lwn.net/Articles/395150/). + +<!-- Handled debian-hurd until yyyy-mm-dd. --> +"""]] |