Re: Imminent Debian GNU/Hurd release

[Svante Signell]

Very good :) small comments below.

On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 21:30 +0100, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
> Em 10-05-2013 19:37, Samuel Thibault escreveu:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > I have added a draft of article on the wiki, see
> >
> > http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013/
> >
> > Please patch, discuss, amend, etc.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Slight changed:
> 
> 
> Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 released!
> 
> It is with huge pleasure that the Hurd project announces the release of 
> Debian GNU/Hurd 2013. This is a snapshot of Debian sid

and testing 

> at the time of 
> the Debian Wheezy release (May 2013), so it is mostly based on Wheezy. 
> It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official Debian 
> GNU/Hurd port release.
> 
> 
> The installation ISO images can be downloaded from Debian Ports with the 
> usual 3 Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, or DVD. Beside a friendly installer 
> a pre-installed disk image is also available to make trying Debian 
> GNU/Hurd even easier.
> 
> Debian GNU/Hurd it's currently available for the i386 architecture with 
> more than 10.000 software packages available (~80% of the Debian archive).

Additionally a lot of patches are pending (due to the long freeze period) see 
e.g.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=hurd;users=debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
so the percentage could be much higher.

> Please make sure to read the configuration information, the FAQ, and the 
> translator primer for a start.
> 
> Due to the very small amount of developers, the progress of the project 
> has not been as fast as other successful Operating Systems, but we 
> believe to have reached a very good state

with the limited resources available.

> There were not many people at any given time (and still not many people 
> today, please join!)

link needed here!

> , but in the end a lot of people have contributed 
> one way or the other, thanks everybody!

Maybe some more stuff about the technical achievements made to add to
here, BBL.