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Re: YotH 2010 -- a Year of the Hurd 2010
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Arne Babenhauserheide |
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Re: YotH 2010 -- a Year of the Hurd 2010 |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:54:32 +0100 |
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Hallo Thomas,
Here’s a first stab at integrating the changes.
Feel free to comment on it :)
(I know you will :) )
# HG changeset patch
# User Arne Babenhauserheide <bab@draketo.de>
# Date 1295884334 -3600
# Node ID f182ae60627ee3346c42a267736f01be8d6e30cb
# Parent 7ed7373be868924e82a1e0dfcd9dd22fa78cec6f
worked on the Hurd info.
diff --git a/gnustatus/gnustatus-2011-01.texi
b/gnustatus/gnustatus-2011-01.texi
--- a/gnustatus/gnustatus-2011-01.texi
+++ b/gnustatus/gnustatus-2011-01.texi
@@ -495,19 +495,26 @@ Automake manual also contains several ex
From Thomas Schwinge: Yeah, that's right! The GNU Hurd is the GNU
project's replacement for the Unix kernel, implemented as a collection
-of servers that run on the Mach microkernel. Contrary to popular
-belief, this project is not yet dead. Of course, it's not the world's
-most active project either, but a handful of volunteers (a small
-handful, mostly) are still plowing their way through the terrain of a
-steadily changing (and improving) Free Software world, striving to
-keep this advanced research prototype system going. They are
-accompanied by another handful of Debian GNU/Hurd, and (new@!) Arch
-Hurd packagers. So, what happened in the last year?
+of servers that run on the Mach microkernel. It has often been called
+the Duke Nukem Forever of kernels, and if we are to believe the press
+release, Duke Nukem Forever will be released in 2011. Does that mean
+that we promise you a Hurd release this year? We don’t want you to wait
+for us or trust us for a someday, and you’ve seen enough promises, so we
+won’t make that promise. Instead we urge you to just check
+@uref{http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd, the code} and
+@uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running.html, run a GNU/Hurd
+system}. Then, if you see promising stuff yourself, please help us make
+it better for you. 2010 was a year of much progress, and here and now,
+we can celebrate it!
+
+A small team of core developers, accompanied by folks from Debian
+GNU/Hurd, and (new@!) Arch Hurd packagers brought you a nice collection
+of improvements:
@itemize @bullet
@item Apart from having done a lot of other work, Samuel Thibault, our Jack
of all trades, merged his development branch that brought us Xen domU
-support. Development had started in 2007 already, and since it has
+support. Development had started in 2007 already, and since then it has
been heavily tested by using it for the Debian GNU/Hurd build servers
as well as our public Hurd boxen,
@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/public_hurd_boxen.html}.
@@ -538,10 +545,14 @@ a lot of these. J@'er@'emie's work resu
GNU/Hurd installation image:
@url{http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage}.
-@item Right in time with J@'er@'emie's Debian Installer success, Philip
-Charles, our 72-year-old provider of Debian GNU/Hurd installation CDs
-has now resigned from that position---a job he had been doing for
-nearly ten years.
+@item The Debian Installer success from J@'er@'emie now allows creating
native installation CDs which no longer rely on installing Hurd using a
temporary Linux system. This replaces the releases which Philip
+Charles, our 72-year-old provider of Debian GNU/Hurd installation CDs,
+has been creating manually for nearly ten years. Right in time, Phil is
+getting more and more paid commitments, so he
+@uref{http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/07/msg00020.html,
+withdrew} from Debian GNU/Hurd, looking forward to seeing the first official
release.
+
+@item With GSoC being done, J@'er@'emie kept working and rewrote the procfs
translator which can now easily be used by any GNU/Hurd user to support most
procps utilities commonly used in GNU/Linux.
@end itemize
Best wishes,
Arne
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- YotH 2010 -- a Year of the Hurd 2010, Thomas Schwinge, 2011/01/09
- Re: YotH 2010 -- a Year of the Hurd 2010, olafBuddenhagen, 2011/01/11
- Re: YotH 2010 -- a Year of the Hurd 2010, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2011/01/12
- Re: YotH 2010 -- a Year of the Hurd 2010, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2011/01/12
- Re: YotH 2010 -- a Year of the Hurd 2010, Thomas Schwinge, 2011/01/24
- Re: YotH 2010 -- a Year of the Hurd 2010, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2011/01/24
- Re: YotH 2010 -- a Year of the Hurd 2010, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2011/01/24
- Re: YotH 2010 -- a Year of the Hurd 2010,
Arne Babenhauserheide <=
- Re: YotH 2010 -- a Year of the Hurd 2010, Manuel Menal, 2011/01/25
- Re: YotH 2010 -- a Year of the Hurd 2010, Thomas Schwinge, 2011/01/25
- Re: YotH 2010 -- a Year of the Hurd 2010, olafBuddenhagen, 2011/01/26
- Re: YotH 2010 -- a Year of the Hurd 2010, olafBuddenhagen, 2011/01/26
- Re: YotH 2010 -- a Year of the Hurd 2010, Diego Nieto Cid, 2011/01/26