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branch master updated: website: Update draft further-reduced binary seed


From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Subject: branch master updated: website: Update draft further-reduced binary seed post.
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 03:37:03 -0400

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The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/master by this push:
     new f780cdf  website: Update draft further-reduced binary seed post.
f780cdf is described below

commit f780cdfcb33efca2517c6e969eb4daf68ee0f55a
Author: Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
AuthorDate: Sat Jun 13 09:34:46 2020 +0200

    website: Update draft further-reduced binary seed post.
    
    * website/drafts/further-reduced-binary-bootstrap.md: Update with
    additions by Ludovic Courtès.
---
 website/drafts/further-reduced-binary-bootstrap.md | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/website/drafts/further-reduced-binary-bootstrap.md 
b/website/drafts/further-reduced-binary-bootstrap.md
index c45db5e..35669a4 100644
--- a/website/drafts/further-reduced-binary-bootstrap.md
+++ b/website/drafts/further-reduced-binary-bootstrap.md
@@ -21,12 +21,16 @@ and at [FOSDEM2020](https://fosdem.org/2020) I also gave [a 
short talk
 
 #### Further Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap
 
-Last year, the first reduction removed the gcc, glibc and binutils
-binary seeds; the new _Further Reduced Binary Seed_ bootstrap removes
-the static-binaries tarball (a.k.a. `%bootstrap-coreutils&co`)
+Last year, the first reduction removed the GCC, glibc and Binutils
+binary seeds.  The new _Further Reduced Binary Seed_ bootstrap, merged
+in Guix `master` last month, removes the “static-binaries tarball”
 containing GNU Awk, Bash, Bzip2, the GNU Core Utilities, Grep, Gzip,
-GNU Make, Patch, sed, Tar, and XZ; and replaces them by [Gash and Gash
-Utils](https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gash).
+GNU Make, Patch, sed, Tar, and Xz.  It replaces them by [Gash and Gash
+Core Utils](https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gash).  Gash is a
+minimalist POSIX shell written in Guile Scheme, while Gash Core Utils
+is a Scheme implementation for most of the tools found in
+GNU Coreutils, as well as the most essential bits of Awk, grep and
+sed.
 
 After three new [GNU Mes](https://gnu.org/s/mes) releases with
 numerous Mes C Library updates and fixes, a major update of Gash and



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