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In the third quarter of 2011, the [hurd hacker] [item]
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* [[toolchain/ELFOSABI_GNU]]
* The Arch Hurd Hackers [packaged DDE](http://www.archhurd.org/news/22/), so
Linux 2.6 drivers can now be compiled on Arch Hurd to run in
userspace. At the time of writing it supports network cards, while
other driver-types still need their interfaces ported.
* Also they had
[a booth at FrOSCon](http://www.froscon.de/aussteller/projekt) and
[released a new Arch Hurd LiveCD](http://www.archhurd.org/news/24/),
so new users can easily test the current state of the Arch flavor
of the Hurd.
* The videos and slides from the GNU Hacker Meeting 2011 in Paris
are [online](http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/), including the
talk from Samuel Thibault:
[GNU/Hurd, aka. Extensibility from the Ground](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2011/Samuel_Thibault-GNU_Hurd.ogv)
([slides](http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/slides/samuel-thibault-hurd.pdf)). He
explains nicely how the simple concept of translators gives power
to non-priviledged and casual users (once we get some of those :)
) without security implications, and how Sub-Hurds and
Neighbor-Hurds compare to Linux containers.
“It’s all about freedom #0”
* Samuel Thibault wrote a new
[Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters](http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/07/msg00002.html)
* Thomas Schwinge improved the technical documentation of the
[[hurd/io_path]] in translators to make it easier for new developers to start hacking.
* Guillem Jover, Fridolin Pokorny and Jonathan Neuschäfer
[sent](http://lists.gnu.org/bug-hurd/2011-08/msg00184.html)
[many](http://lists.gnu.org/bug-hurd/2011-08/msg00093.html)
[patches](http://lists.gnu.org/bug-hurd/2011-08/msg00030.html) for
gnumach, improving stability, fixing memory leaks and cleaning up
code.
* Jeremie Koenig finished his Google Summer of Code project to
[Improve Java on Hurd](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/user/jkoenig/java.html). He
[improved the Hurd signalling](http://lists.gnu.org/bug-hurd/2011-06/msg00073.html),
ported OpenJDK and created a
[Java Hurd-Library](https://github.com/jeremie-koenig/hurd-java)
which already allows writing a
[Hello World translator in Java](https://github.com/jeremie-koenig/hurd-java/blob/master/HelloMach.java),
though still pretty low-level.
* Maksym Planeta replaced GNUmach’s old zalloc memory allocator with
the new balloc from Richard Braun
([integration commit](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/gnumach.git/commit/?id=50d073c5ef0feb1676606d0068abf626e8297cd7)),
which handles slabs and should waste less memory than zalloc. Also
balloc has a cpu cache level, so it should work faster on SMP
systems, once we get up do date SMP CPU drivers for GNUmach.
* 69.96% of debian packages
[are now available for the Hurd](https://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph-big.png),
so we’re getting closer to the goal of reaching 85%. If you can
port debian packages and want to help the Hurd, this is the
perfect time to get in contact and
[port your favorite missing package](http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-devel-debian)
to the Hurd.
* And Richard Braun contributed a new
[[buildd,_porterbox_and_public_box|public_hurd_boxen]] via
sceen.net, making it easier to test the Hurd without much setup as
well as improving debian packaging.
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