From 374283b13c8aad6109c2c7598d064344896198ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 14:23:05 +0100 Subject: Split news items into separate files. --- news/2002-01-13.mdwn | 16 ++ news/2002-01-19.mdwn | 26 +++ news/2002-02-18.mdwn | 15 ++ news/2002-03-03.mdwn | 26 +++ news/2002-03-08.mdwn | 29 ++++ news/2002-03-23.mdwn | 15 ++ news/2002-05-05.mdwn | 31 ++++ news/2002-05-18.mdwn | 18 ++ news/2002-05-24.mdwn | 19 ++ news/2002-05-28.mdwn | 20 +++ news/2002-06-22.mdwn | 20 +++ news/2002-08-16.mdwn | 30 ++++ news/2002-10-03.mdwn | 16 ++ news/2002-10-03_2.mdwn | 16 ++ news/2002-10-19.mdwn | 37 ++++ news/2002-11-18.mdwn | 19 ++ news/2003-01-18.mdwn | 18 ++ news/2003-02-14.mdwn | 14 ++ news/2003-07-02.mdwn | 17 ++ news/2003-07-16.mdwn | 17 ++ news/2003-08-21.mdwn | 14 ++ news/2005-01-28.mdwn | 14 ++ news/2005-09-20.mdwn | 18 ++ news/2006-04-27.mdwn | 73 ++++++++ news/2007-01-07.mdwn | 17 ++ news/2007-01-14.mdwn | 50 ++++++ news/2007-03-14.mdwn | 55 ++++++ news/2007-10-01.mdwn | 20 +++ news/2007-10-12.mdwn | 14 ++ news/2008-02-11.mdwn | 16 ++ news/2008-03-19.mdwn | 21 +++ news/2008-09-11.mdwn | 15 ++ whatsnew.html | 232 ------------------------- whatsold.html | 458 ------------------------------------------------- 34 files changed, 746 insertions(+), 690 deletions(-) create mode 100644 news/2002-01-13.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2002-01-19.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2002-02-18.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2002-03-03.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2002-03-08.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2002-03-23.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2002-05-05.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2002-05-18.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2002-05-24.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2002-05-28.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2002-06-22.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2002-08-16.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2002-10-03.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2002-10-03_2.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2002-10-19.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2002-11-18.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2003-01-18.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2003-02-14.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2003-07-02.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2003-07-16.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2003-08-21.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2005-01-28.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2005-09-20.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2006-04-27.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2007-01-07.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2007-01-14.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2007-03-14.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2007-10-01.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2007-10-12.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2008-02-11.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2008-03-19.mdwn create mode 100644 news/2008-09-11.mdwn delete mode 100644 whatsnew.html delete mode 100644 whatsold.html diff --git a/news/2002-01-13.mdwn b/news/2002-01-13.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..606e9d1f --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2002-01-13.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +An +interview +with Marcus Brinkmann was published by Pro-Linux (the interview is in +German). diff --git a/news/2002-01-19.mdwn b/news/2002-01-19.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..71fbb9af --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2002-01-19.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +The Toronto Hurd User Group meets: The University of Waterloo +Computer Science Club will be hosting a talk on the Hurd and the +Debian GNU/Hurd operating system. There will also be a gpg keysigning +and installfest for GNU/Hurd following the talk. All are welcome, and +gpg keys are not required. +

+Date: 26 Jan 2002 +

+Time: 1400 (2pm EST) +

+Place: University of Waterloo, Math and Computers building, room 3001 +(comfy lounge). +

+More information about this event at +thug@gnu.org diff --git a/news/2002-02-18.mdwn b/news/2002-02-18.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..549416ac --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2002-02-18.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +Pro-Linux has published a GNU/Hurd +status report (in German). They will infrequently publish updates +in the future. diff --git a/news/2002-03-03.mdwn b/news/2002-03-03.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6e09027d --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2002-03-03.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +There is a new mailing list called +Hurd-devel-readers. It is the read-only version of Hurd-devel. +

+Hurd-devel is a mailing list for detailed discussions +of design and implementation issues in the GNU Hurd; it is an internal +low-volume list restricted to the core developers of the Hurd. While +the web-based +archive of Hurd-devel has always been public, the new mailing list +Hurd-devel-readers provides a convenient way to follow +the discussion of the Hurd experts. +

+If you are a recipient of Hurd-devel-readers and want +to follow up on the discussion, please reply to the +Bug-hurd mailing list. diff --git a/news/2002-03-08.mdwn b/news/2002-03-08.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fd12c387 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2002-03-08.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +We are pleased to announce version 1.3 of the GNU distribution of the +Mach 3.0 interface generator `MIG'. It may be found in the file +http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mig/mig-1.3.tar.gz (about 145 KB compressed). +

+Diffs from version 1.2 are in http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mig/mig-1.2-1.3.diff.gz +(about 6 KB compressed, 15 KB uncompressed). Relative to version 1.2, +version 1.3 contains only some minor fixes. +

+You need this tool to compile the GNU Mach and Hurd distributions, and +to compile GNU libc for the Hurd. +

+Bug reports relating to this distribution should be sent to +bug-hurd@gnu.org. Requests for assistance should be made on +help-hurd@gnu.org. +

+The md5sum checksum for this distibution is: +

+45c2b7456727d81dbd75f7152f8136fd mig-1.3.tar.gz diff --git a/news/2002-03-23.mdwn b/news/2002-03-23.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d7d84856 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2002-03-23.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +Added The Hurd +Hacking Guide to the documentation section. Thanks to Wolfgang +Jährling for providing this introduction into GNU/Hurd and Mach +programming! diff --git a/news/2002-05-05.mdwn b/news/2002-05-05.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..498dcc70 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2002-05-05.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +We are currently finishing the transition from a stdio-based GNU C +Library (glibc) to a libio-based one. This is the result of about +five months of work we put into getting the system ready and, of +course, the work that the glibc developers did to make glibc what it +is. +

+This change will have various advantages, for example libio has been +tested more extensively, as it is also used by most GNU/Linux systems +for some time now. However, it also means a change in the Application +Binary Interface (ABI) of glibc, thus you will need to reinstall an +existing Debian GNU/Hurd system. Upgrading has not been tested at +all, so better do not expect it to work. Also note that you will need +to get some of the Debian packages from alpha.gnu.org. +Please read the recent mailing list archives for details. +

+Important Note: As another temporary complication, the current +installation tarball is available at a different place +than usual. diff --git a/news/2002-05-18.mdwn b/news/2002-05-18.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c387b8a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2002-05-18.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +The "Linux and Unix User Group Heilbronn" (in Germany) is organizing +a Debian GNU/Hurd installation party at +25 May 2002. In addition to that, Wolfgang Jährling will give a talk +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. diff --git a/news/2002-05-24.mdwn b/news/2002-05-24.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..97d33b73 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2002-05-24.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +Finally, the transition from the stdio-based GLibC Application +Binary Interface (ABI) to the libio-based GLibC ABI has been +completed. The Debian GNU/Hurd binary distribution has resumed +building packages again, and everything should be back to normal. +Note that we have also switched to 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. diff --git a/news/2002-05-28.mdwn b/news/2002-05-28.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ce380e9e --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2002-05-28.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +We are pleased to announce version 1.3 of the GNU distribution of +the Mach kernel, featuring advanced boot script support, support for +large disks (>= 10GB) and an improved console. +

+This distribution is only for x86 PC machines. +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. diff --git a/news/2002-06-22.mdwn b/news/2002-06-22.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3534821d --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2002-06-22.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +Various developers of the Hurd and people interested in it will meet +at the Libre Software Meeting in +Bordeaux on July 9-13. Neal Walfield, who is working on porting the +Hurd to the L4 microkernel, will give +a presentation about L4, the people from +HurdFr will give an +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. diff --git a/news/2002-08-16.mdwn b/news/2002-08-16.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..83986869 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2002-08-16.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +The Hurd sources have stabilized again after a short period in +which some of the interfaces were changed to prepare support of long +files. All relevant filesystem and I/O interfaces have been modified +to use 64 bit even on 32 bit systems. + +In light of the small and patient user base, we decided to drop +backwards compatibility and replace the interfaces instead extending +them. This means that the binaries of the Hurd, the C library, and +some other programs need to be replaced manually, all at the same +time, followed by a reboot. + +A detailed +step-by-step procedure how to upgrade Debian GNU/Hurd is available +on the Debian web site. + +People not using a binary distribution need to do a full manual +bootstrap. It is recommended to treat this as a cross-compilation +case. diff --git a/news/2002-10-03.mdwn b/news/2002-10-03.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8ca2e3b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2002-10-03.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +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. diff --git a/news/2002-10-03_2.mdwn b/news/2002-10-03_2.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c7c7fe08 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2002-10-03_2.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +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. diff --git a/news/2002-10-19.mdwn b/news/2002-10-19.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..36fb71d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2002-10-19.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +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 diff --git a/news/2002-11-18.mdwn b/news/2002-11-18.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..88f72f4d --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2002-11-18.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +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. diff --git a/news/2003-01-18.mdwn b/news/2003-01-18.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e6d3507e --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2003-01-18.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2003, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +Gaël Le Mignot, president of HurdFr, + +presented the GNU Hurd on 22 November +2002 at EpX in Paris. +English slides and +French slides of the +talk are also available. diff --git a/news/2003-02-14.mdwn b/news/2003-02-14.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ae3e1c8e --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2003-02-14.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2003, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +The GNU/Hurd User's Guide +is now accessible through the Documentation + section of the Hurd web pages. diff --git a/news/2003-07-02.mdwn b/news/2003-07-02.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..063b6cd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2003-07-02.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2003, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +The tarball for Debian GNU/Hurd that Marcus Brinkmann made over the +years has been discontinued in favour of Jeff Bailey's +crosshurd package. +To install Debian GNU/Hurd from now on, this package should be used. +Another Debian system is required to be installed on the same machine. +The GNU/Hurd installation guide has not been updated yet. diff --git a/news/2003-07-16.mdwn b/news/2003-07-16.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..eff02f92 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2003-07-16.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2003, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +GNU/LinuxTag 2003 is now over and since there was a talk given about +the Hurd, a demo GNU/Hurd machine running and the sale of Hurd +t-shirts, Wolfgang Jährling decided to write a short +summary of what happened there. Many thanks to Wolfgang +Jährling, Volker Dormeyer and Michael Banck! diff --git a/news/2003-08-21.mdwn b/news/2003-08-21.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a0a31f96 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2003-08-21.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2003, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +Added a link to Patrick Strasser's the Hurd Source +Code Cross Reference in all the "Source code" sections. diff --git a/news/2005-01-28.mdwn b/news/2005-01-28.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d6e09752 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2005-01-28.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2005, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +Marcus Brinkmann added +a small web page describing +the ongoing developments on the Hurd-to-L4 port. diff --git a/news/2005-09-20.mdwn b/news/2005-09-20.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bdfcf33b --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2005-09-20.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2005, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +Material from the Operating System topic during +the Libre Software +Meeting which took place this summer +is available +online. Included are slides and recordings of talks by Marcus +Brinkmann and Neal Walfield about the Hurd/L4 port. diff --git a/news/2006-04-27.mdwn b/news/2006-04-27.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e4d4e533 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2006-04-27.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2006, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +

The GNU Hurd project will participate in this year's Google +Summer of Code, under the aegis of the GNU project.

+ +

The following is a list of items you might want to work on. If you want to +modify or extend these tasks or have your own ideas what to work on, please +feel invited to contact us on the bug-hurd mailing list or the #hurd IRC channel.

+ + + +

Please see the page GNU +guidelines for Summer of Code projects about how to make an application and +Summer of Code project ideas +list for a list of tasks for various GNU projects and information about +about how to submit your own ideas for tasks.

diff --git a/news/2007-01-07.mdwn b/news/2007-01-07.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fbf325fb --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2007-01-07.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +A number of GNU Hurd developers will again (as already in the previous +years) meet at the time of the FOSDEM 2007, which will take place from +2007-02-24 to 25 in Brussels, Belgium. +This +wiki page has some details. Contact +us if you are interested in meeting with us. diff --git a/news/2007-01-14.mdwn b/news/2007-01-14.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..54e2dd00 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2007-01-14.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +

Neal Walfield and Marcus Brinkmann have written and submitted for +publication A +Critique of the GNU Hurd Multi-server Operating System and a position +paper Improving Usability via Access Decomposition and Policy +Refinement. Please follow the two preceding links to see the complete +announcements. The authors welcome comments and discussion which may be +directed to the <bug-hurd@gnu.org> +mailing list for the Critique and to the <l4-hurd@gnu.org> mailing list for the +position paper. + +

The abstract of the Critique:

The GNU Hurd's design was +motivated by a desire to rectify a number of observed shortcomings in Unix. +Foremost among these is that many policies that limit users exist simply as +remnants of the design of the system's mechanisms and their implementation. To +increase extensibility and integration, the Hurd adopts an object-based +architecture and defines interfaces, which, in particular those for the +composition of and access to name spaces, are virtualizable. + +

This paper is first a presentation of the Hurd's design goals and a +characterization of its architecture primarily as it represents a departure +from Unix's. We then critique the architecture and assess it in terms of the +user environment of today focusing on security. Then follows an evaluation of +Mach, the microkernel on which the Hurd is built, emphasizing the design +constraints which Mach imposes as well as a number of deficiencies its design +presents for multi-server like systems. Finally, we reflect on the properties +such a system appears to require.

+ +

The abstract of the position paper:

Commodity operating +systems fail to meet the security, resource management and integration +expectations of users. We propose a unified solution based on a capability +framework as it supports fine grained objects, straightforward access +propagation and virtualizable interfaces and explore how to improve resource +use via access decomposition and policy refinement with minimum interposition. +We argue that only a small static number of scheduling policies are needed in +practice and advocate hierarchical policy specification and central +realization.

diff --git a/news/2007-03-14.mdwn b/news/2007-03-14.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5db08abd --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2007-03-14.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +

The GNU Hurd project will participate in this year's Google +Summer of Code, under the aegis of the GNU project.

+ +

The following is a list of items you might want to work on. If you want to +modify these task proposals or have your own ideas on what to work, then please +don't hesitate to contact us on the bug-hurd mailing list or the #hurd IRC channel.

+ + + +

Please see the page GNU +guidelines for Summer of Code projects about how to make an application and +Summer of Code project ideas +list for a list of tasks for various GNU projects and information about +about how to submit your own ideas for tasks.

diff --git a/news/2007-10-01.mdwn b/news/2007-10-01.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fde7fb7b --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2007-10-01.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +This year the GNU Hurd had again been assigned one slot within +the Google Summer of Code program, which was assigned +to the task design and +implement libchannel, +a library for streams. Carl Fredrik Hammar has been working on this +task and +recently posted +a summary about the successful work he had been doing, but also gave an +outline about how he intends to continue improving and extending it. diff --git a/news/2007-10-12.mdwn b/news/2007-10-12.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d1259003 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2007-10-12.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +Stefan Siegl +added support +for IPv6 networking to the pfinet translator. diff --git a/news/2008-02-11.mdwn b/news/2008-02-11.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..115f1a0c --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2008-02-11.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +A number of GNU Hurd developers will again (as already in the previous +years) meet at the time of the FOSDEM 2008, which will take place from +2008-02-23 to 24 in Brussels, Belgium. +This +wiki page has some details. Contact +us if you are interested in meeting with us. diff --git a/news/2008-03-19.mdwn b/news/2008-03-19.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..db0da725 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2008-03-19.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +

The GNU Hurd project has been accepted as a mentoring organisation for +the Google Summer of Code 2008! If you are a student and +looking for a job during the summer, take a look at +our project ideas +list — here's your chance to help improving the GNU Hurd including +mentoring from our side and being paid compensation from Google's!

+ +

The application deadline has +been extended +to Monday, 2008-04-07, so there's more time for you +students to hand in your Hurd applications.

diff --git a/news/2008-09-11.mdwn b/news/2008-09-11.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..de3647ee --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2008-09-11.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 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]]."]]"""]] + +Please see +http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/community/gsoc/ +for information about how our Goggle Summer of Code 2008 +participation worked out. Congratulations to both students +and mentors! diff --git a/whatsnew.html b/whatsnew.html deleted file mode 100644 index 6c6a3340..00000000 --- a/whatsnew.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,232 +0,0 @@ -

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Please see -http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/community/gsoc/ -for information about how our Goggle Summer of Code 2008 -participation worked out. Congratulations to both students -and mentors!

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2008-03-19
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The GNU Hurd project has been accepted as a mentoring organisation for -the Google Summer of Code 2008! If you are a student and -looking for a job during the summer, take a look at -our project ideas -list — here's your chance to help improving the GNU Hurd including -mentoring from our side and being paid compensation from Google's!

- -

The application deadline has -been extended -to Monday, 2008-04-07, so there's more time for you -students to hand in your Hurd applications.

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2008-02-11
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A number of GNU Hurd developers will again (as already in the previous -years) meet at the time of the FOSDEM 2008, which will take place from -2008-02-23 to 24 in Brussels, Belgium. -This -wiki page has some details. Contact -us if you are interested in meeting with us.

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2007-10-12
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Stefan Siegl -added support -for IPv6 networking to the pfinet translator. - -

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2007-10-01
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- -

This year the GNU Hurd had again been assigned one slot within -the Google Summer of Code program, which was assigned -to the task design and -implement libchannel, -a library for streams. Carl Fredrik Hammar has been working on this -task and -recently posted -a summary about the successful work he had been doing, but also gave an -outline about how he intends to continue improving and extending it. - -

- -
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2007-03-14
- -
- -

The GNU Hurd project will participate in this year's Google -Summer of Code, under the aegis of the GNU project.

- -

The following is a list of items you might want to work on. If you want to -modify these task proposals or have your own ideas on what to work, then please -don't hesitate to contact us on the bug-hurd mailing list or the #hurd IRC channel.

- - - -

Please see the page GNU -guidelines for Summer of Code projects about how to make an application and -Summer of Code project ideas -list for a list of tasks for various GNU projects and information about -about how to submit your own ideas for tasks.

- -
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2007-01-14
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Neal Walfield and Marcus Brinkmann have written and submitted for -publication A -Critique of the GNU Hurd Multi-server Operating System and a position -paper Improving Usability via Access Decomposition and Policy -Refinement. Please follow the two preceding links to see the complete -announcements. The authors welcome comments and discussion which may be -directed to the <bug-hurd@gnu.org> -mailing list for the Critique and to the <l4-hurd@gnu.org> mailing list for the -position paper. - -

The abstract of the Critique:

The GNU Hurd's design was -motivated by a desire to rectify a number of observed shortcomings in Unix. -Foremost among these is that many policies that limit users exist simply as -remnants of the design of the system's mechanisms and their implementation. To -increase extensibility and integration, the Hurd adopts an object-based -architecture and defines interfaces, which, in particular those for the -composition of and access to name spaces, are virtualizable. - -

This paper is first a presentation of the Hurd's design goals and a -characterization of its architecture primarily as it represents a departure -from Unix's. We then critique the architecture and assess it in terms of the -user environment of today focusing on security. Then follows an evaluation of -Mach, the microkernel on which the Hurd is built, emphasizing the design -constraints which Mach imposes as well as a number of deficiencies its design -presents for multi-server like systems. Finally, we reflect on the properties -such a system appears to require.

- -

The abstract of the position paper:

Commodity operating -systems fail to meet the security, resource management and integration -expectations of users. We propose a unified solution based on a capability -framework as it supports fine grained objects, straightforward access -propagation and virtualizable interfaces and explore how to improve resource -use via access decomposition and policy refinement with minimum interposition. -We argue that only a small static number of scheduling policies are needed in -practice and advocate hierarchical policy specification and central -realization.

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A number of GNU Hurd developers will again (as already in the previous -years) meet at the time of the FOSDEM 2007, which will take place from -2007-02-24 to 25 in Brussels, Belgium. -This -wiki page has some details. Contact -us if you are interested in meeting with us.

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27 April 2006
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The GNU Hurd project will participate in this year's Google -Summer of Code, under the aegis of the GNU project.

- -

The following is a list of items you might want to work on. If you want to -modify or extend these tasks or have your own ideas what to work on, please -feel invited to contact us on the bug-hurd mailing list or the #hurd IRC channel.

- - - -

Please see the page GNU -guidelines for Summer of Code projects about how to make an application and -Summer of Code project ideas -list for a list of tasks for various GNU projects and information about -about how to submit your own ideas for tasks.

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20 September 2005
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-Material from the Operating System topic during -the Libre Software -Meeting which took place this summer -is available -online. Included are slides and recordings of talks by Marcus -Brinkmann and Neal Walfield about the Hurd/L4 port. -

-

- -
28 January 2005
-
-Marcus Brinkmann added -a small web page describing -the ongoing developments on the Hurd-to-L4 port. -

-

- -
21 August 2003
-
-Added a link to Patrick Strasser's the Hurd Source -Code Cross Reference in all the "Source code" sections. -

-

- -
16 July 2003
-
-GNU/LinuxTag 2003 is now over and since there was a talk given about -the Hurd, a demo GNU/Hurd machine running and the sale of Hurd -t-shirts, Wolfgang Jährling decided to write a short -summary of what happened there. Many thanks to Wolfgang -Jährling, Volker Dormeyer and Michael Banck! -

-

- -
2 July 2003
-
-The tarball for Debian GNU/Hurd that Marcus Brinkmann made over the -years has been discontinued in favour of Jeff Bailey's -crosshurd package. -To install Debian GNU/Hurd from now on, this package should be used. -Another Debian system is required to be installed on the same machine. -The GNU/Hurd installation guide has not been updated yet. -

-

- -
14 February 2003
-
-The GNU/Hurd User's Guide -is now accessible through the Documentation - section of the Hurd web pages. -

-

- -
18 January 2003
-
-Gaël Le Mignot, president of HurdFr, - -presented the GNU Hurd on 22 November -2002 at EpX in Paris. -English slides and -French slides of the -talk are also available. -

-

- -
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 -files. All relevant filesystem and I/O interfaces have been modified -to use 64 bit even on 32 bit systems. - -In light of the small and patient user base, we decided to drop -backwards compatibility and replace the interfaces instead extending -them. This means that the binaries of the Hurd, the C library, and -some other programs need to be replaced manually, all at the same -time, followed by a reboot. - -A detailed -step-by-step procedure how to upgrade Debian GNU/Hurd is available -on the Debian web site. - -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
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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 -at the Libre Software Meeting in -Bordeaux on July 9-13. Neal Walfield, who is working on porting the -Hurd to the L4 microkernel, will give -a presentation about L4, the people from -HurdFr will give an -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. -

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28 May 2002
-
We are pleased to announce version 1.3 of the GNU distribution of -the Mach kernel, featuring advanced boot script support, support for -large disks (>= 10GB) and an improved console. -

-This distribution is only for x86 PC machines. -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. -

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24 May 2002
-
Finally, the transition from the stdio-based GLibC Application -Binary Interface (ABI) to the libio-based GLibC ABI has been -completed. The Debian GNU/Hurd binary distribution has resumed -building packages again, and everything should be back to normal. -Note that we have also switched to 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 -a Debian GNU/Hurd installation party at -25 May 2002. In addition to that, Wolfgang Jährling will give a talk -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 -Library (glibc) to a libio-based one. This is the result of about -five months of work we put into getting the system ready and, of -course, the work that the glibc developers did to make glibc what it -is. -

-This change will have various advantages, for example libio has been -tested more extensively, as it is also used by most GNU/Linux systems -for some time now. However, it also means a change in the Application -Binary Interface (ABI) of glibc, thus you will need to reinstall an -existing Debian GNU/Hurd system. Upgrading has not been tested at -all, so better do not expect it to work. Also note that you will need -to get some of the Debian packages from alpha.gnu.org. -Please read the recent mailing list archives for details. -

-Important Note: As another temporary complication, the current -installation tarball is available at a different place -than usual. -

-

- -
23 March 2002
-
Added The Hurd -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 -Mach 3.0 interface generator `MIG'. It may be found in the file -http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mig/mig-1.3.tar.gz (about 145 KB compressed). -

-Diffs from version 1.2 are in http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mig/mig-1.2-1.3.diff.gz -(about 6 KB compressed, 15 KB uncompressed). Relative to version 1.2, -version 1.3 contains only some minor fixes. -

-You need this tool to compile the GNU Mach and Hurd distributions, and -to compile GNU libc for the Hurd. -

-Bug reports relating to this distribution should be sent to -bug-hurd@gnu.org. Requests for assistance should be made on -help-hurd@gnu.org. -

-The md5sum checksum for this distibution is: -

-45c2b7456727d81dbd75f7152f8136fd mig-1.3.tar.gz -

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- -
03 March 2002
-
There is a new mailing list called -Hurd-devel-readers. It is the read-only version of Hurd-devel. -

-Hurd-devel is a mailing list for detailed discussions -of design and implementation issues in the GNU Hurd; it is an internal -low-volume list restricted to the core developers of the Hurd. While -the web-based -archive of Hurd-devel has always been public, the new mailing list -Hurd-devel-readers provides a convenient way to follow -the discussion of the Hurd experts. -

-If you are a recipient of Hurd-devel-readers and want -to follow up on the discussion, please reply to the -Bug-hurd mailing list. -

-

- -
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 -Computer Science Club will be hosting a talk on the Hurd and the -Debian GNU/Hurd operating system. There will also be a gpg keysigning -and installfest for GNU/Hurd following the talk. All are welcome, and -gpg keys are not required. -

-Date: 26 Jan 2002 -

-Time: 1400 (2pm EST) -

-Place: University of Waterloo, Math and Computers building, room 3001 -(comfy lounge). -

-More information about this event at -thug@gnu.org -

-

- -
19 January 2002
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Added a subsection about -the ChangeLogs. -

-

- -
13 January 2002
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