Re: news 2010-04

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Sonntag, 2. Mai 2010, 09:10:06 schrieb olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net:
> 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?

They were mostly pulled together, because they are both concerned with ease of 
running hurd, and because I wanted to keep the news easy to take in (too many 
paragraphs make it harder to read). 

> I don't think "boring" is a suitable attribute :-)

> It may be less exciting 

Why didn’t I find that phrase?! :)
And it’s so simple…

(my mind isn’t with me enough the last two weaks — I have to take 
antihistaminica for the first time in my life :( )

@Thomas: can we still change it? 

> 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?

I ran out of “space”[^1], so I had to try and find the most interesting parts 
for readers. 

[^1]: I try to keep the news short enough, that people can read them in a 
short break. 

Best wishes, 
Arne

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