From ba390db95f9581977bb65caa180655f94dd957d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Babenhauserheide Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 14:32:54 +0200 Subject: Added Thomas DiModica --- contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn index c7b1dbda..a22cc56d 100644 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn +++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ else=" [[!cut id="full_news" text=""" -At the end of the last 2 quarters, Samuel Thibault pushed the [pthread patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00088.html) from Vicente Hernando Ara, Barry de Freese, Thomas Schwinge, Richard Braun and Samuel and others to the different upstream packages, finally enabling modern pthreads for the Hurd, which makes it possible to implement full Hurd bindings for languages which require pthreads, so for example [PyHurd](http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pyhurd/) can profit from the Hurd libraries instead of having to rely on low-level Mach bindings to implement Hurd features like translators. +At the end of the last 2 quarters, Samuel Thibault pushed the [pthread patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00088.html) from Vicente Hernando Ara, Barry de Freese, Thomas DiModica, Thomas Schwinge, Richard Braun and Samuel and others to the different upstream packages, finally enabling modern pthreads for the Hurd, which makes it possible to implement full Hurd bindings for languages which require pthreads, so for example [PyHurd](http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pyhurd/) can profit from the Hurd libraries instead of having to rely on low-level Mach bindings to implement Hurd features like translators. The switch to pthreads has been attempted multiple times, but in the past it always hit some tricky issues which proved to be a roadblock. Last year, Richard Braun took up the task again and finished the transition of the Hurd libraries and glibc to pthreads with libpthread. -- cgit v1.2.3 From 11bad4ee7fcf83db33f56f57eb3e8a186004d315 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Babenhauserheide Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 14:36:34 +0200 Subject: polish --- contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn index a22cc56d..80059025 100644 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn +++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ else=" [[!cut id="full_news" text=""" -At the end of the last 2 quarters, Samuel Thibault pushed the [pthread patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00088.html) from Vicente Hernando Ara, Barry de Freese, Thomas DiModica, Thomas Schwinge, Richard Braun and Samuel and others to the different upstream packages, finally enabling modern pthreads for the Hurd, which makes it possible to implement full Hurd bindings for languages which require pthreads, so for example [PyHurd](http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pyhurd/) can profit from the Hurd libraries instead of having to rely on low-level Mach bindings to implement Hurd features like translators. +At the end of the last 2 quarters, Samuel Thibault pushed the [pthread patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00088.html) from Vicente Hernando Ara, Barry de Freese, Thomas DiModica, Thomas Schwinge, Richard Braun and Samuel and others to the different upstream packages, finally enabling modern pthreads for the Hurd, which makes it possible to implement full Hurd bindings for languages which require pthreads. So for example [PyHurd](http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pyhurd/) can profit from the Hurd libraries instead of having to rely on low-level Mach bindings to implement Hurd features like translators. The switch to pthreads has been attempted multiple times, but in the past it always hit some tricky issues which proved to be a roadblock. Last year, Richard Braun took up the task again and finished the transition of the Hurd libraries and glibc to pthreads with libpthread. -- cgit v1.2.3 From c776db3b865077fd168e3d048e383ca07eb00e40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Babenhauserheide Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 00:37:15 +0200 Subject: hurd_2013: formulation polish --- contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn index c56f6016..4d763b9f 100644 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn +++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn @@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release. The installation ISO images can be downloaded from [[Debian Ports|http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/]] with the usual 3 Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, or DVD. Besides the friendly -Debian installer, a pre-installed disk image is also available to make trying -Debian GNU/Hurd even easier. +Debian installer, a pre-installed disk image is also available, making it even easier to try +Debian GNU/Hurd. Debian GNU/Hurd it's currently available for the i386 architecture with more than 10.000 software packages available (> 75% of the Debian archive, and more -- cgit v1.2.3 From c3321a1272e6bcbd6d38733c1bb08f39e608abb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlLgZHOP8qcFTTfRUQLCk-y_Ph6X--UVQw" Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 07:32:23 +0200 Subject: --- contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn index 4d763b9f..e5bbaea1 100644 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn +++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ with the usual 3 Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, or DVD. Besides the friendly Debian installer, a pre-installed disk image is also available, making it even easier to try Debian GNU/Hurd. -Debian GNU/Hurd it's currently available for the i386 architecture with more +Debian GNU/Hurd is currently available for the i386 architecture with more than 10.000 software packages available (> 75% of the Debian archive, and more to come!). -- cgit v1.2.3