From 84de051426f225cafb7779d45895aa0136122114 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Babenhauserheide Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:00:37 +0200 Subject: Added news for 2010-05 --- news/2010-05-31.mdwn | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+) create mode 100644 news/2010-05-31.mdwn (limited to 'news') diff --git a/news/2010-05-31.mdwn b/news/2010-05-31.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b06ad0c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2010-05-31.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +[[!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]]."]]"""]] + + + +A month of the Hurd: *thread storms*, *dde linux26*, *new live CD* and *IRC meeting schedule*. +[[!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 Zheng Da +> [reported](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00037.html) +> on the state of porting DDE linux26 to the Hurd, +> which can improve the GNU Hurd Hardware support a lot: + +>> I tested pcnet32, ne2k-pci, rtl8139, e1000. pcnet32 works in +>> both VMWare and qemu. Only qemu emulates ne2k-pci and rtl8139 cards and both DDE +>> drivers work well in qemu. — [[Zheng_Da|user/zhengda]] + +> Also Sergio Lopez +> [added some patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00106.html) +> to prevent thread storms when synchronizing large pagers in ext2fs. They should improve performance for high throughput situations. + +> Additionally Justus Winter created a [live CD](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00033.html) +> with an installation wizard in the spirit of the OpenBSD installer. +> He needs testers to improve it. + +> And the [scheduled IRC meetings for Google Summer of code](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00148.html) are continuing on Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30 UTC. If you want to catch up on them, you can have a look at the [channel logs](). + +> *PS: As the amount of new developments on the Hurd has increased quite a bit since the start of the ‘Month of the Hurd’, these news are only a selection of the items you can already test yourself. There’s more in our [[mailing_lists]]. The rough criterium for the Month of the Hurd is “can you already test it and can I say why it is great for the Hurd at large?” — [[Arne_Babenhauserheide|community/weblogs/ArneBab]]* + +"""]] -- cgit v1.2.3 From 1f81c44ba59cdf1c155594974a9fcf7b32154e3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Babenhauserheide Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:03:56 +0200 Subject: news fix: wrong order of elements in title. --- news/2010-05-31.mdwn | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'news') diff --git a/news/2010-05-31.mdwn b/news/2010-05-31.mdwn index b06ad0c2..4db31304 100644 --- a/news/2010-05-31.mdwn +++ b/news/2010-05-31.mdwn @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Will be set by tschwinge when publishing. [[!meta date="YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC"]] --> -A month of the Hurd: *thread storms*, *dde linux26*, *new live CD* and *IRC meeting schedule*. +A month of the Hurd: *dde linux26*, *thread storms*, *new live CD* and *IRC meeting schedule*. [[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]""" else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] -- cgit v1.2.3 From 020d263b568dacf8513f5e54927c6dd30f12d480 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Babenhauserheide Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:05:19 +0200 Subject: added missing link to the channel logs. --- news/2010-05-31.mdwn | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'news') diff --git a/news/2010-05-31.mdwn b/news/2010-05-31.mdwn index 4db31304..d03c8c5d 100644 --- a/news/2010-05-31.mdwn +++ b/news/2010-05-31.mdwn @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] > with an installation wizard in the spirit of the OpenBSD installer. > He needs testers to improve it. -> And the [scheduled IRC meetings for Google Summer of code](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00148.html) are continuing on Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30 UTC. If you want to catch up on them, you can have a look at the [channel logs](). +> And the [scheduled IRC meetings for Google Summer of code](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00148.html) are continuing on Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30 UTC. If you want to catch up on them, you can have a look at the [channel logs](http://richtlijn.be/~larstiq/hurd/). > *PS: As the amount of new developments on the Hurd has increased quite a bit since the start of the ‘Month of the Hurd’, these news are only a selection of the items you can already test yourself. There’s more in our [[mailing_lists]]. The rough criterium for the Month of the Hurd is “can you already test it and can I say why it is great for the Hurd at large?” — [[Arne_Babenhauserheide|community/weblogs/ArneBab]]* -- cgit v1.2.3 From 119d17d0411c6c480c3ebcce4f79931579947fcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Babenhauserheide Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 15:16:17 +0200 Subject: Added info on the patches to auth, exec and tmpfs and cleaned up a bit (thanks to antrik and youpi). --- news/2010-05-31.mdwn | 22 ++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'news') diff --git a/news/2010-05-31.mdwn b/news/2010-05-31.mdwn index d03c8c5d..b7a5eb6e 100644 --- a/news/2010-05-31.mdwn +++ b/news/2010-05-31.mdwn @@ -20,18 +20,24 @@ else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] [[!cut id="full_news" text=""" -> This month Zheng Da +> This month [[Zheng_Da|user/zhengda]] > [reported](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00037.html) > on the state of porting DDE linux26 to the Hurd, -> which can improve the GNU Hurd Hardware support a lot: - ->> I tested pcnet32, ne2k-pci, rtl8139, e1000. pcnet32 works in ->> both VMWare and qemu. Only qemu emulates ne2k-pci and rtl8139 cards and both DDE ->> drivers work well in qemu. — [[Zheng_Da|user/zhengda]] +> which can improve the GNU Hurd Hardware support a lot. +> The drivers emulated by qemu and vmware already work fine, +> but it still needs work to run on real hardware. > Also Sergio Lopez > [added some patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00106.html) -> to prevent thread storms when synchronizing large pagers in ext2fs. They should improve performance for high throughput situations. +> to prevent thread storms when synchronizing large pagers in ext2fs. They should improve performance when many files are accessed at the same time. + +> And Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, Carl Fredrik Hammar and others developed some patches ( +> [auth](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00003.html), +> [exec](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00108.html), +> [tmpfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00076.html), +> … ) +> to fix or improve the semantics of various internal hurd servers, +> to avoid some bugs or improve performance, > Additionally Justus Winter created a [live CD](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00033.html) > with an installation wizard in the spirit of the OpenBSD installer. @@ -39,6 +45,6 @@ else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] > And the [scheduled IRC meetings for Google Summer of code](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00148.html) are continuing on Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30 UTC. If you want to catch up on them, you can have a look at the [channel logs](http://richtlijn.be/~larstiq/hurd/). -> *PS: As the amount of new developments on the Hurd has increased quite a bit since the start of the ‘Month of the Hurd’, these news are only a selection of the items you can already test yourself. There’s more in our [[mailing_lists]]. The rough criterium for the Month of the Hurd is “can you already test it and can I say why it is great for the Hurd at large?” — [[Arne_Babenhauserheide|community/weblogs/ArneBab]]* +> *PS: As the amount of new developments on the Hurd has increased quite a bit since the start of the ‘Month of the Hurd’, these news are only a selection of the items you can already test yourself. There’s more in our [[mailing_lists]]. The rough criterium for the Month of the Hurd is “can you already test it and can I say why it is great for the Hurd at large?” There definitely is stuff I don’t understand well enough to explain here… — [[Arne_Babenhauserheide|community/weblogs/ArneBab]]* """]] -- cgit v1.2.3 From fcddfc3bc02fe1395cf052ed01b2ec10f4df99ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Babenhauserheide Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 15:46:27 +0200 Subject: news restructuring. --- news/2010-05-31.mdwn | 18 ++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'news') diff --git a/news/2010-05-31.mdwn b/news/2010-05-31.mdwn index b7a5eb6e..e6fc0518 100644 --- a/news/2010-05-31.mdwn +++ b/news/2010-05-31.mdwn @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Will be set by tschwinge when publishing. [[!meta date="YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC"]] --> -A month of the Hurd: *dde linux26*, *thread storms*, *new live CD* and *IRC meeting schedule*. +A month of the Hurd: *dde linux26*, *thread storms*, *patches*, *new live CD* and *IRC meetings*. [[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]""" else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] @@ -31,20 +31,30 @@ else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] > [added some patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00106.html) > to prevent thread storms when synchronizing large pagers in ext2fs. They should improve performance when many files are accessed at the same time. -> And Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, Carl Fredrik Hammar and others developed some patches ( +> And Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, Carl Fredrik Hammar, Sergio Lopez +> and others developed some patches ( > [auth](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00003.html), > [exec](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00108.html), > [tmpfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00076.html), > … ) > to fix or improve the semantics of various internal hurd servers, -> to avoid some bugs or improve performance, +> to avoid some bugs or improve performance. > Additionally Justus Winter created a [live CD](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00033.html) > with an installation wizard in the spirit of the OpenBSD installer. > He needs testers to improve it. -> And the [scheduled IRC meetings for Google Summer of code](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00148.html) are continuing on Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30 UTC. If you want to catch up on them, you can have a look at the [channel logs](http://richtlijn.be/~larstiq/hurd/). +> And the +> [scheduled IRC meetings for Google Summer of code](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00148.html) +> are continuing on Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30 UTC. +> If you want to catch up on them, you can have a look at the +> [channel logs](http://richtlijn.be/~larstiq/hurd/). > *PS: As the amount of new developments on the Hurd has increased quite a bit since the start of the ‘Month of the Hurd’, these news are only a selection of the items you can already test yourself. There’s more in our [[mailing_lists]]. The rough criterium for the Month of the Hurd is “can you already test it and can I say why it is great for the Hurd at large?” There definitely is stuff I don’t understand well enough to explain here… — [[Arne_Babenhauserheide|community/weblogs/ArneBab]]* +------ + +* email news: In the [[mailing_lists]], especially [[bug-hurd|mailing_lists#bug-hurd]]. +* IRC contact: #hurd on freenode.net; meeting on mondays and thursdays, 10:30 UTC ([logs](http://richtlijn.be/~larstiq/hurd/)). + """]] -- cgit v1.2.3