Hi, I just wrote the news 2010-04 (with help of a draft by Thomas). Please tell me if there’s something missing or something we could improve.
A month of the Hurd: *Arch Hurd on Hardware*, *X.org out of the box*, *new debian qemu image* and *GSoC students*. > This month the Arch Hurd team > reported the first instance of Arch Hurd > [running on real hardware](http://www.archhurd.org/news/11) (and uploaded > [a photo](http://wiki.archhurd.org/wiki/User:Giselher#ArchHurd_on_a_real_PC) > as evidence). > > Also the fix from *Samuel Thibault* got included in libxcb1, so X.org > [works out of the box > again](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/04/msg00034.html) with > a simple startx and *Philip Charles* > [extended his > offerings](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/04/msg00019.html) > with an updated *GRUB usb stick for booting Debian/Hurd*. > And mainly thanks to *Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez* we now have a > [new qemu image](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/04/msg00098.html) > Which runs out of the box via `qemu -hda debian-hurd-17042010-qemu.img`. > > Now to the GSoC news: we got > [3 > students](http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/list_projects/google/gsoc2010) > > working on the Hurd this year: > >> *Jeremie Koenig* mentored by *Samuel Thibault* will be working on adapting >> the debian-installer to >> [produce working Debian GNU/Hurd installation images] (http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/debian/t127230758239) >> so we can more easily offer up to date disc-sets >> ([details](http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2010/HurdDebianInstaller/JeremieKoenig)). >> >> >> Also *Emilio Pozuelo Monfort* mentored by *Fredrik Hammar* will work on the >> possibly boring yet extremely valuable task of >> [fixing compatibility problems exposed by projects testsuites] (http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/gnuproject/t127230759396) >> ([[details|community/gsoc/project_ideas/testsuites]]). > >> And finally *Karim Ahmed* mentored by *Sergio Lopez* will work on >> [Tuning the VM Subsystem in GNU/Hurd] (http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/gnuproject/t127230759587) >> to bring get the virtual memory management in Hurd/Mach up to date >> ([[details|community/gsoc/project_ideas/vm_tuning]]). > > So we had quite an exiting month with many starting threads, > which makes this the perfect time to > subscribe to our [[mailing_lists]] (bug-hurd and debian-hurd are the main > lists) > and see the Hurd make another leap forward :) > > We’d be happy to see you sign up and > contribute towards making the Hurd usable for everyone > ([[our_mission|community/weblogs/antrik/hurd-mission-statement]]). Best wishes, Arne --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- - Ich hab' nichts zu verbergen – hab ich gedacht - http://draketo.de/licht/lieder/ich-hab-nichts-zu-verbergen
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