Hi, I pushed the news to bddebian: → http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/news/2010-08-31/
If there’s something missing, please tell me! > This month you can get a lot of insight into the Hurd very easily by watching > the presentations from Neal Walfield and Michael Bank on Hurd > at the GHM (GNU Hackers' Meeting) in denhaag: [“It’s About Freedom”] (http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2010/denhaag/) > ([video](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2010/GNU-Hurd_- _Its_About_Freedom,_Or_Why_you_should_care.ogv)) > and Debian GNU/Hurd at the DebConf10: > [“Past. Present. And Future?”] (http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/595.en.html) > ([slides](http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/attachments/159_debian- hurd.pdf), > [video](http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian- meetings/2010/debconf10/high/1117_Debian_GNUHurd.ogv)), > including a very nice nod towards the main forces who are presently > pushing the Hurd forward *(→ further > [[media_appearances]] of the Hurd).* > Also Jeremie Koenig (among other things) > [rewrote procfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug- hurd/2010-08/msg00165.html) > for the [[debian installer Summer of Code project|user/jkoenig]]: > *“I have successfully tested it with most of the Linux procps utilities, > as well as busybox and htop. It seems to be stable, not too slow, and > it stays under 1.5M in resident size.”* > To get and test it: > > git clone http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git > > cd hurd > > git remote add jk git://github.com/jeremie-koenig/hurd.git > > git fetch jk > > git checkout jk/procfs *# Add "-b procfs" to create a local branch.* > > make procfs > > settrans -ag /proc procfs/procfs --compatible > > *# you now have your new procfs* <!--note: this shows off the ease with which you can test deeper changes in the Hurd, so I think it warrants the space it gets.--> > Thomas Schwinge > [added more information](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug- hurd/2010-08/msg00066.html) > into the wiki, notably open issues, to facilitate coordination, and started converting > [hurdextras cvs repositories ](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/) into the > [hurd git repos](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd) and the > [incubator repository] (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/). > All of these should make it easier for new contributors to join in, and > thanks to distributed version control, you can start hacking at once. > And the Arch Hurd team > [released a new LiveCD](http://www.archhurd.org/news/17) > ([changes](http://www.barrucadu.co.uk/arch-hurd-livecd-i686- core-2010-08-25iso)) > which is a lot more stable that the previous one > (including a more stable X, now at Xorg 1.9), added a > [Planet Arch Hurd](http://planet.archhurd.org/) > which aggregates the Arch Hurd Blogs and packaged everything you need for a > [HAMP](http://www.archhurd.org/news/18/) system: > Hurd, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Sidenote: you can now > [flattr](http://flattr.com/thing/44395/Arch-Hurd) > Arch Hurd, if you want to support the project. > Also for > [Arch Hurd](http://archhurd.org), > Diego Nieto Cid brought the console-driver-xkb > [up to date](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug- hurd/2010-08/msg00012.html). > Finally we had a short review of what the current Hurd contributors > [still need](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug- hurd/2010-08/msg00029.html) > ([summary](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug- hurd/2010-08/msg00087.html)) > to use the Hurd for most of their day-to-day tasks. Best wishes, Arne PS: Sorry for taking so long. There’s always too much stuff to do… On a sidenote: The presentations are great! -- singing a part of the history of free software: - http://infinite-hands.draketo.de
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