From a4cd9925e227686090ea4d12cc63908fdd24a244 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 01:55:16 +0100 Subject: Add draft of talk proposal --- community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) create mode 100644 community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn (limited to 'community') diff --git a/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn b/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b0b91af6 --- /dev/null +++ b/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 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]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="FOSDEM 2013"]] + + + +FOSDEM will take place on February 2th/3th at the Université Libre de +Bruxelles. + + +# Who and When + +[[!table class="table_style_1" data=""" +"Name","Attending","Arrival","Return","Share room with us" +"Samuel Thibault","yes","","","yes" +"""]] + + +# Multiserver, Microkernel-Based Operating Systems Devroom + +[Announcement](https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/microkernel-devroom/2012-October/000054.html). + +Talk proposal: + +title: Latest news about GNU/Hurd + +Full name: Samuel Thibault + +Short abstract: +GNU/Hurd has a long-term vaporware reputation. Development has indeed been +relatively dormant for some time, but recent regain of interest has brought +interesting improvements, to the point that there will be a non-official release +of the GNU/Hurd variant of Debian Wheezy. + +This talk will present to GNU/Hurd in general and its "translator" mechanism +which provides strong flexibility to users and administrators. + +It will also present recent developments, notably in terms of DDE device drivers +run as userland processes, and discuss about maintenance of DDE. -- cgit v1.2.3 From d7ab183a930f002679fbff6e00e7109c44e5b4cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 01:59:00 +0100 Subject: demo! --- community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'community') diff --git a/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn b/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn index b0b91af6..94ed47b1 100644 --- a/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn +++ b/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn @@ -42,7 +42,11 @@ interesting improvements, to the point that there will be a non-official release of the GNU/Hurd variant of Debian Wheezy. This talk will present to GNU/Hurd in general and its "translator" mechanism -which provides strong flexibility to users and administrators. +which provides strong flexibility to users and administrators, as well as demo +it live. It will also present recent developments, notably in terms of DDE device drivers run as userland processes, and discuss about maintenance of DDE. + +Duration: +30m, 45m? -- cgit v1.2.3 From fceb4370bc96b0a25246defad97395aa68af14ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 02:13:24 +0100 Subject: +subhurd --- community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'community') diff --git a/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn b/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn index 94ed47b1..f98e2ab1 100644 --- a/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn +++ b/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn @@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ of the GNU/Hurd variant of Debian Wheezy. This talk will present to GNU/Hurd in general and its "translator" mechanism which provides strong flexibility to users and administrators, as well as demo -it live. - -It will also present recent developments, notably in terms of DDE device drivers -run as userland processes, and discuss about maintenance of DDE. +it live. The subhurd/neighborhurd mechanism, a very natural way to provide +virtualization container support on GNU/Hurd, will also be presented. It will +also present recent developments, notably in terms of DDE device drivers run as +userland processes, and discuss about maintenance of DDE. Duration: 30m, 45m? -- cgit v1.2.3 From d476e65fd144e487767d15f51e1160028ba0264e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 02:24:29 +0100 Subject: Add general goal of GNU/Hurd --- community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'community') diff --git a/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn b/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn index f98e2ab1..7513b8c9 100644 --- a/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn +++ b/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn @@ -36,15 +36,18 @@ title: Latest news about GNU/Hurd Full name: Samuel Thibault Short abstract: -GNU/Hurd has a long-term vaporware reputation. Development has indeed been -relatively dormant for some time, but recent regain of interest has brought -interesting improvements, to the point that there will be a non-official release -of the GNU/Hurd variant of Debian Wheezy. +GNU/Hurd aims at being a general-purpose Operating System with a strong emphasis +on flexibility and freedom for the user. It has however a long-term vaporware +reputation. Development has indeed been relatively dormant for some time, but +recent regain of interest has brought interesting improvements, to the point +that there will be a non-official release of the GNU/Hurd variant of Debian +Wheezy, with about 75% of the Debian packages, including classical graphical +desktop application (gnome, gnumeric, firefox, ...) This talk will present to GNU/Hurd in general and its "translator" mechanism which provides strong flexibility to users and administrators, as well as demo it live. The subhurd/neighborhurd mechanism, a very natural way to provide -virtualization container support on GNU/Hurd, will also be presented. It will +virtualization container support on GNU/Hurd, will also be presented. We will also present recent developments, notably in terms of DDE device drivers run as userland processes, and discuss about maintenance of DDE. -- cgit v1.2.3 From a5b317f3e64ff11aa5154f722036d75f72179734 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 02:26:00 +0100 Subject: tell that translator replace the traditional filesystem notion --- community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'community') diff --git a/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn b/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn index 7513b8c9..bb3f83ec 100644 --- a/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn +++ b/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn @@ -45,11 +45,12 @@ Wheezy, with about 75% of the Debian packages, including classical graphical desktop application (gnome, gnumeric, firefox, ...) This talk will present to GNU/Hurd in general and its "translator" mechanism -which provides strong flexibility to users and administrators, as well as demo -it live. The subhurd/neighborhurd mechanism, a very natural way to provide -virtualization container support on GNU/Hurd, will also be presented. We will -also present recent developments, notably in terms of DDE device drivers run as -userland processes, and discuss about maintenance of DDE. +which replaces the traditional notion of filesystem, so as to provide strong +flexibility to users and administrators, and we will demo it live. The +subhurd/neighborhurd mechanism, a very natural way to provide virtualization +container support on GNU/Hurd, will also be presented. We will also present +recent developments, notably in terms of DDE device drivers run as userland +processes, and discuss about maintenance of DDE. Duration: 30m, 45m? -- cgit v1.2.3 From a9a173e9a01f2e949c79fc60660385c7b2b97829 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 02:27:47 +0100 Subject: µkernel design MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'community') diff --git a/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn b/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn index bb3f83ec..99398d27 100644 --- a/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn +++ b/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn @@ -37,12 +37,14 @@ Full name: Samuel Thibault Short abstract: GNU/Hurd aims at being a general-purpose Operating System with a strong emphasis -on flexibility and freedom for the user. It has however a long-term vaporware -reputation. Development has indeed been relatively dormant for some time, but -recent regain of interest has brought interesting improvements, to the point -that there will be a non-official release of the GNU/Hurd variant of Debian -Wheezy, with about 75% of the Debian packages, including classical graphical -desktop application (gnome, gnumeric, firefox, ...) +on flexibility and freedom for the user, and thus based on a design made +of a micro-kernel surrounded by a hird of userland servers. It has however +a long-term vaporware reputation; development has indeed been relatively +dormant for some time, but recent regain of interest has brought interesting +improvements and stabilization, to the point that there will be a non-official +release of the GNU/Hurd variant of Debian Wheezy, with about 75% of the Debian +packages, including classical graphical desktop application (gnome, gnumeric, +firefox, ...) This talk will present to GNU/Hurd in general and its "translator" mechanism which replaces the traditional notion of filesystem, so as to provide strong -- cgit v1.2.3 From a575420fb319dbb14916a43e8fe30b0c7f9875d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 02:28:38 +0100 Subject: userland processes for translators --- community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'community') diff --git a/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn b/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn index 99398d27..92c8202a 100644 --- a/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn +++ b/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn @@ -47,12 +47,12 @@ packages, including classical graphical desktop application (gnome, gnumeric, firefox, ...) This talk will present to GNU/Hurd in general and its "translator" mechanism -which replaces the traditional notion of filesystem, so as to provide strong -flexibility to users and administrators, and we will demo it live. The -subhurd/neighborhurd mechanism, a very natural way to provide virtualization -container support on GNU/Hurd, will also be presented. We will also present -recent developments, notably in terms of DDE device drivers run as userland -processes, and discuss about maintenance of DDE. +which replaces the traditional notion of filesystem by userland processes, so +as to provide strong flexibility to users and administrators, and we will demo +it live. The subhurd/neighborhurd mechanism, a very natural way to provide +virtualization container support on GNU/Hurd, will also be presented. We will +also present recent developments, notably in terms of DDE device drivers run as +userland processes, and discuss about maintenance of DDE. Duration: 30m, 45m? -- cgit v1.2.3 From 527ae442b8f5c81ebf21fd62d2edfafcbcd39568 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:46:17 +0100 Subject: better title --- community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'community') diff --git a/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn b/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn index 92c8202a..4acf0c90 100644 --- a/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn +++ b/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Bruxelles. Talk proposal: -title: Latest news about GNU/Hurd +title: The GNU/Hurd architecture, nifty features, and latest news Full name: Samuel Thibault -- cgit v1.2.3