Hi,
Sorry for the short notice. The current news reads like this:
This month saw the first booting version of an
[Arch GNU Hurd](http://www.archhurd.org/),
which seconds the distribution from
[Debian](http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/)
which already gives you 66% of the debian software archive.
Also we organized a meeting at FOSDEM, February 6th and 7th in Bruxelles,
where
[8 Hurd developers will meet](http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-
web/community/meetings/fosdem_2010/).
Six of us will stay in Hotel Astrid with the FSFE folks.
On Sunday 7th, Olaf Buddenhagen will be giving two presentations in the
[Alt-OS Devroom](http://dev.haiku-
os.org/wiki/FOSDEM2010AltOSDevroomSchedule):
*Why is Anyone Still Working on the GNU Hurd?* (10:30)
and *Porting KGI graphics drivers from Linux to GNU Hurd* (13:00).
And Carl Fredrik Hammar
[finished and presented](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-
hurd/2010-01/msg00078.html)
his thesis
[Generalizing mobility for the Hurd]
(http://users.student.lth.se/cs07fh9/2009-hammar-hurd-mobility.pdf)
and passed with distinction. Its abstract reads:
*The GNU Hurd features mobile objects
in its implementation of filesystem backing stores.
This thesis investigates the
limitations and security concerns
these objects present,
and how they can be overcome.
This is done in preparation for new applications
that feature mobile code and mobile objects.
In addition,
one such application is studied and implemented,
in which mobile code is used to make
the ioctl system call more extensible.*
Please add anything important I missed (I still have problems with my email
program, so quite a few things might have slipped past me).
I'll merge and push tomorrow...
Best wishes,
Arne
PS: As usual you can get the news beforehand in the master-news_next branch of
the wiki (git).
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