From 06b5102e13021dda9619ed960abb1fecc1f54726 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:28:45 +0000 Subject: Added news entries from 2002. Updated copyright years, and added missing ones since the page was edited during 2003 and 2004. --- whatsold.html | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 81 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/whatsold.html b/whatsold.html index 1b7d1d9f..ddad85ac 100644 --- a/whatsold.html +++ b/whatsold.html @@ -48,6 +48,68 @@

What's old?

+
18 November 2002
+
+For one month now, the pthread implementation by Neal Walfield is part +of the Hurd CVS source tree, and has been used to compile more +software for the Debian GNU/Hurd archive. The lack of a POSIX +compatible thread library (the Hurd was based on the cthread +implementation that originally accompanied Mach) was a show stopper, +and we are happy about the possibility to not only compile more +applications, but also to start the work on migrating the Hurd source +code to pthreads. +

+

+ +
19 October 2002
+
+The Toronto Hurd Users Group meets again: The University of Waterloo Computer Science Club will +be hosting talks on the GNU Hurd on October 26 by Marcus Brinkmann and +Neal Walfield. There will also be a GnuPG keysigning before Marcus's +talk. Please email Ryan +Golbeck your GnuPG key so he +can get everyone setup.

+ +

Marcus will talk about the +Hurd interfaces. Neal will talk about about + +A GNU Approach to Virtual Memory Management in a Multiserver Operating +System +

+ +

Date: 26 Oct 2002

+

Time: 1330 (1:30pm EST) and 1500 (3:00pm EST)

+

Place: University of Waterloo, Math and Computers building, room MC +2066

+ +

More information can be found at UW CS Club website and +at thug@gnu.org +

+

+ +
03 October 2002
+
Marcus Brinkmann speaks about the GNU Hurd at "Reflections | +Projections 2002", the National Student ACM +Conference at the University of Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. The +conference is held on October 18-20. +

+

+ +
03 October 2002
+
A new article about the authentication +server has been added to the web pages. It resembles the talk +about the same topic which was given at the Libre Software Meeting, +therefore the target audience is mostly programmers which want to learn +about the details of authentication in the Hurd. +

+

+
16 August 2002
The Hurd sources have stabilized again after a short period in which some of the interfaces were changed to prepare support of long @@ -69,12 +131,14 @@ People not using a binary distribution need to do a full manual bootstrap. It is recommended to treat this as a cross-compilation case.

+

31 July 2002
A new page has been added to the site, listing related projects. You can find it at the bottom of the menu.

+

22 June 2002
Various developers of the Hurd and people interested in it will meet @@ -87,6 +151,7 @@ introduction to the Hurd, and another presentation about the Hurd will be given by Marcus Brinkmann. There might be additional talks about the Hurd and related topics.

+
28 May 2002
We are pleased to announce version 1.3 of the GNU distribution of @@ -99,6 +164,7 @@ Volunteers interested in ports to other architectures are eagerly sought. More information about GNU Mach 1.3 is available on the GNU Mach web page.

+
24 May 2002
Finally, the transition from the stdio-based GLibC Application @@ -110,6 +176,7 @@ HREF="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/">GCC 3.1 as our default compiler. Thanks to everyone who helped in making all this possible, and our apologize for any inconvenience we have caused you.

+

18 May 2002
The "Linux and Unix User Group Heilbronn" (in Germany) is organizing @@ -120,6 +187,7 @@ about usage of GNU/Hurd, common problems found in porting programs to GNU/Hurd and programming of extensions for the Hurd. It is a public event, so everyone is free to show up and participate.

+

05 May 2002
We are currently finishing the transition from a stdio-based GNU C @@ -143,6 +211,7 @@ installation tarball is available at a different place than usual.

+

23 March 2002
Added The Hurd @@ -150,6 +219,7 @@ Hacking Guide to the documentation section. Thanks to Wolfgang Jährling for providing this introduction into GNU/Hurd and Mach programming!

+

08 March 2002
We are pleased to announce version 1.3 of the GNU distribution of the @@ -171,6 +241,7 @@ The md5sum checksum for this distibution is:

45c2b7456727d81dbd75f7152f8136fd mig-1.3.tar.gz

+

03 March 2002
There is a new mailing list called +
+
18 February 2002
Pro-Linux has published a GNU/Hurd status report (in German). They will infrequently publish updates in the future.

+

19 January 2002
The Toronto Hurd User Group meets: The University of Waterloo @@ -213,11 +287,13 @@ Place: University of Waterloo, Math and Computers building, room 3001 More information about this event at thug@gnu.org

+

19 January 2002
Added a subsection about the ChangeLogs.

+

13 January 2002
An @@ -226,9 +302,12 @@ with Marcus Brinkmann was published by Pro-Linux (the interview is in German).

+

11 January 2002
Added a section called `What's new'. +

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@@ -261,8 +340,8 @@ Please send comments on these web pages to send other questions to gnu@gnu.org.

-Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc., -59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA +Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, +Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA

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