Hi, On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 06:07:50PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> > 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*. Err... These seem to be two completely unrelated news items? > >> 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]]). I don't think "boring" is a suitable attribute :-) It may be less exciting in the sense that it doesn't produce new features, better performance etc. (Though it's quite possible that some fixes will improve overall stability.) However, I don't think the actual work involved is less interesting than work on other tasks. > > 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 :) Perhaps this is a stealth reference to it ;-) -- but I wonder whether it wouldn't be good to explicitely mention Sergio's experiments on the effect of out-of-band data on IPC performance; work on fixing tmpfs; and various suggestions for improving the external pager interface? -antrik-