[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 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 date="2009-10-31 00:00 UTC"]] A month of the Hurd: new *installation CDs*, further *Git migration*, *porting*. [[!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 Philip Charles created a new [installation > CD](http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/current/), the [L > series](http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/current/README-L1-disc-set), > for the Hurd, which brings us a big step towards installing the Hurd from the > Hurd (without the need of a Linux-based installer). If you enjoy testing > stuff, please give it a try. > On the same front, Michael Banck uploaded a new version of > [crosshurd](http://packages.debian.org/sid/crosshurd) that makes it again > possible to use this package for creating a GNU/Hurd system image directly > from Debian unstable packages. > Also, Thomas Schwinge migrated Sergiu Ivanov's [[hurd/translator/nsmux]], > [[Flávio Cruz|flaviocruz]]' cl-hurd *(clisp bindings)*, and Carl Fredrik > Hammar [[hurd/libchannel]] repositories into our new [*incubator* Git > repository](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/), making > them easier to access for other contributors. > Our bunch of porters continued to make further Debian packages usable on > GNU/Hurd: Pino Toscano worked on a lot of packages, and Wesley W. Terpstra > made [mlton](http://packages.debian.org/sid/mlton) build -- together with > Samuel Thibault, who first had to enhance [[GNU > Mach|microkernel/mach/gnumach]] to support allocating more than 1 GiB of RAM > to one user-space process, which mlton needs. > On the go, Samuel also fixed a number of other bugs here and there, for > example together with Eric Blake and Roland McGrath hashed out a difficile > issue in the filesystem servers regarding POSIX conformance and system > stability. """]]