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author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-05-23 09:12:48 +0200 |
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committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-05-23 09:12:48 +0200 |
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diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 51b6c2ab..00000000 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,89 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -<!-- Date when the news item is (to be) pulished (important for RSS feeds). -Will be set by tschwinge when publishing. -[[!meta date="YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC"]] ---> - -Note: this is a **DRAFT**. The release has not actually happened yet. Please do not broadcast yet. - -Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 *released*! - -[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news -text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]""" -else=" -[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] - -[[!cut id="full_news" text=""" - -It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd port announces the -**release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2013**. -This is a snapshot of Debian sid 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|http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/]] -with the usual 3 Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, or DVD. Besides the friendly -Debian installer, a pre-installed disk image is also available, making it even easier to try -Debian GNU/Hurd. - -Debian GNU/Hurd is currently available for the i386 architecture with more -than 10.000 software packages available (> 75% of the Debian archive, and more -to come!). - -Please make sure to read the -[[configuration information|http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install]], -the [[FAQ|faq]], -and the [[translator primer|hurd/documentation/translator_primer]] -for a start. - -Due to the very small number of developers, -our progress of the project has not been as fast as other successful -Operating Systems, but we believe to have reached a very good -state, even with the limited resources. - -We would like to thank all the people who have worked on GNU/Hurd over the past -decades. There were not many people at any given time (and still not many people -today, please [[join|contributing]]!), but in the end a lot of people have -contributed one way or the other. **Thanks everybody!** - -**A GNU/Hurd Timeline** - -- 1997: Last release of the Hurd without Debian: GNU Hurd 0.2. -- 2002: GNU MIG 1.3, libio-based glibc, GNU Mach 1.3 (disks >= 10GiB), Hurd L4 starts, work on the transition from cthreads to pthreads starts, Hurd installation party in Heidelberg, Toronto Hurd User Group meeting, Presentation at EpX in Paris ([slides](http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/pres-en/)). -- 2003: [Crosshurd](http://packages.debian.org/crosshurd), [LinuxTag 2003](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-hurd/2003-07/msg00029.html). -- 2005: Hurd/L4 at Libre Software Meeting. -- 2007: [[FOSDEM|community/meetings/fosdem_2007]], the [[critique_and_position_paper|news/2007-01-14]], [[libchannel_for_GSoC|news/2007-10-01]], [[IPv6|news/2007-10-12]], Hurd/L4 abandoned, Hurd on Xen. -- 2008: [[5_successful_GSoC_projects|news/2008-09-11]], [[Hurd/Viengoos|news/2008-12-12]]. -- 2009: [[GSoC_unionmount_translator|news/2009-09-30]], [[Start_of_Device_Drivers_in_Userspace|news/2009-11-30]]. 66% of the Debian packages build. -- 2010: [Arch Hurd](http://www.archhurd.org/), [Initial Nix port](http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/hurd-master), [[DDE|news/2010-02-28]], Thesis: [[Generalizing mobility for the Hurd|news/2010-01-31]], [Hurd article in LWN](http://lwn.net/Articles/395150/), [[procfs|hurd/translator/procfs]], Talk: [It’s about Freedom](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2010/GNU-Hurd_-_Its_About_Freedom,_Or_Why_you_should_care.ogv), GSoC: Debian Installer, Hurd/Viengoos on hold. 68% of the Debian packages build. -- 2011: [[GNU_Hurd_0.401|news/2011-04-01]], xkb, [Hurd in xkcd](http://xkcd.com/844/), Graphical Debian Installer, Plans for Debian GNU Hurd in Wheezy, Hurd [bounties](http://www.fossfactory.org/project/p276) on FOSS Factory, [[Lots of attention from the press brought lots of rumors|news/2011-q2-ps]], [Talk at GHM in Paris](http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/#outline-container-2-5) ([video](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2011/Samuel_Thibault-GNU_Hurd.ogv)), slab allocator, Continuous builds with Nix, improved build system, GSoC: [[Java|user/jkoenig/java]]. 70% of the Debian packages build. -- 2012: Half the Linux 2.6.32 network drivers build with DDE, [Continuous testing with Nix](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-03/msg00019.html), glibc changes pushed upstream, improved debugging, memory mapping [with red-black tree](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00109.html), pthreads work, [[live-filesystem-debugging_report|news/2012-q1-q2]]. -- 2013: [Talk at FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/hurd_microkernel/). - ---- - -The **GNU Hurd** is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. It is a -collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file -systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are -implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux). [[More -detailed|hurd/documentation]]. - -**GNU Mach** is the microkernel upon which a GNU Hurd system is based. It -provides an Inter Process Communication (IPC) mechanism that the Hurd uses to -define interfaces for implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the -services a traditional operating system kernel provides. [[More -detailed|microkernel/mach/gnumach]]. - -<!--see [[contributing/web_pages/news/writing_the_qoth]] for additional information on writing the QotH.--> - -"""]] |