# HG changeset patch # User Arne Babenhauserheide # Date 1295884334 -3600 # Node ID f182ae60627ee3346c42a267736f01be8d6e30cb # Parent 7ed7373be868924e82a1e0dfcd9dd22fa78cec6f worked on the Hurd info. diff --git a/gnustatus/gnustatus-2011-01.texi b/gnustatus/gnustatus-2011-01.texi --- a/gnustatus/gnustatus-2011-01.texi +++ b/gnustatus/gnustatus-2011-01.texi @@ -495,19 +495,26 @@ Automake manual also contains several ex From Thomas Schwinge: Yeah, that's right! The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel, implemented as a collection -of servers that run on the Mach microkernel. Contrary to popular -belief, this project is not yet dead. Of course, it's not the world's -most active project either, but a handful of volunteers (a small -handful, mostly) are still plowing their way through the terrain of a -steadily changing (and improving) Free Software world, striving to -keep this advanced research prototype system going. They are -accompanied by another handful of Debian GNU/Hurd, and (new@!) Arch -Hurd packagers. So, what happened in the last year? +of servers that run on the Mach microkernel. It has often been called +the Duke Nukem Forever of kernels, and if we are to believe the press +release, Duke Nukem Forever will be released in 2011. Does that mean +that we promise you a Hurd release this year? We don’t want you to wait +for us or trust us for a someday, and you’ve seen enough promises, so we +won’t make that promise. Instead we urge you to just check +@uref{http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd, the code} and +@uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running.html, run a GNU/Hurd +system}. Then, if you see promising stuff yourself, please help us make +it better for you. 2010 was a year of much progress, and here and now, +we can celebrate it! + +A small team of core developers, accompanied by folks from Debian +GNU/Hurd, and (new@!) Arch Hurd packagers brought you a nice collection +of improvements: @itemize @bullet @item Apart from having done a lot of other work, Samuel Thibault, our Jack of all trades, merged his development branch that brought us Xen domU -support. Development had started in 2007 already, and since it has +support. Development had started in 2007 already, and since then it has been heavily tested by using it for the Debian GNU/Hurd build servers as well as our public Hurd boxen, @url{http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/public_hurd_boxen.html}. @@ -538,10 +545,14 @@ a lot of these. J@'er@'emie's work resu GNU/Hurd installation image: @url{http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage}. -@item Right in time with J@'er@'emie's Debian Installer success, Philip -Charles, our 72-year-old provider of Debian GNU/Hurd installation CDs -has now resigned from that position---a job he had been doing for -nearly ten years. +@item The Debian Installer success from J@'er@'emie now allows creating native installation CDs which no longer rely on installing Hurd using a temporary Linux system. This replaces the releases which Philip +Charles, our 72-year-old provider of Debian GNU/Hurd installation CDs, +has been creating manually for nearly ten years. Right in time, Phil is +getting more and more paid commitments, so he +@uref{http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/07/msg00020.html, +withdrew} from Debian GNU/Hurd, looking forward to seeing the first official release. + +@item With GSoC being done, J@'er@'emie kept working and rewrote the procfs translator which can now easily be used by any GNU/Hurd user to support most procps utilities commonly used in GNU/Linux. @end itemize