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A month of the Hurd: *initrd*, *clustered page-in* and *auth server fixes*. 
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> This month Jérémie Koenig wrote a 
> [preliminary patch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00047.html)
> to add initrd support in Mach for the Debian installer. 
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> Also Karim Allah Amed added the 
> [first patch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00023.html) 
> to port the clustered paging-in from OSF Mach to GNU Mach which should improve the virtual memory performance of the Hurd. 
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> Mainly thanks to 
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> Additionally 
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> And Carl Fredrik Hammar added patches to improve the stability of the auth server (
> [port death](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00003.html) and 
> [null port](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00019.html)). 

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