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diff --git a/faq/how_many_developers.mdwn b/faq/how_many_developers.mdwn
index da457d96..9e079852 100644
--- a/faq/how_many_developers.mdwn
+++ b/faq/how_many_developers.mdwn
@@ -67,3 +67,10 @@ We're an open project: any interested party (*you*!) are very welcome to start
 
 Likewise, for reaching out to new developers, we're participating in [[Google's
 Summer of Code program|community/gsoc]].
+
+As *el_presidente* commented on
+<http://lwn.net/Articles/568745/#CommAnchor568780>:
+
+> Developers, developers, developers, developers. 
+> 
+> They are the people that matter at this point in time. 
diff --git a/faq/old_faq.txt b/faq/old_faq.txt
index 98c605eb..e370277e 100644
--- a/faq/old_faq.txt
+++ b/faq/old_faq.txt
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ users when they are talking about, installing, using, compiling and
 developing the GNU Hurd as well as its binary distribution Debian
 GNU/Hurd.  Be sure to read this before asking for help.
 
-The GNU Hurd is under active development and a stable version has not
-yet been released.  Be aware that:  there is a lot of work yet to be
+The GNU Hurd is under active development.
+Be aware that there is a lot of work yet to be
 completed; you will find bugs; your system will crash.  That said, there
 is a lot of room for contributions at all levels:  development of the
 Hurd and Mach proper, porting applications, writing documentation and,
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ at:
 
 ??	What is OSKit-Mach?
 
-{NHW,FH} There are two versions of GNU Mac that are in use: GNU Mach
+{NHW,FH} There have once been two versions of GNU Mach developed: GNU Mach
 1.x and GNU Mach 2.x, formerly known as OSKit-Mach.  The former uses
 the drivers from Linux 2.0.x while the latter uses the University of
 Utah's OSKit library for drivers.  You can find out more about the
@@ -414,9 +414,7 @@ OSKit library at:
 
  	http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit
 
-GNU Mach 2.x is usable, but some things are still missing or not
-working, like the serial port and scsi drivers.  This is why GNU Mach
-2.0 hasn't released yet and the two versions coexist.
+The project didn't work out too well, so development has again been halted.
 
 ??	Where is the documentation?
 
diff --git a/faq/release.mdwn b/faq/release.mdwn
index e782a9fb..6ec26925 100644
--- a/faq/release.mdwn
+++ b/faq/release.mdwn
@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
 [[!meta title="When will the Hurd be released?"]]
 
-Next year.
+0.5 has been [[released on 2013-09-27|news/2013-09-27]].  Read about the
+[[Hurd's status|hurd/status]].
 
-Save that, read about the Hurd's [[hurd/status]].
+> OK, but when will it be finished?
+
+Well, is the Linux kernel considered to be really "finished"?  Hurd 0.5 does
+work, but of course it can still become better -- beginning to
+[[contribute|contributing]] and [[joining us|how_many_developers]] is the best
+way for you to help achieve that.  :-)
diff --git a/faq/sata_disk_drives/discussion.mdwn b/faq/sata_disk_drives/discussion.mdwn
index e9da8560..d05566b6 100644
--- a/faq/sata_disk_drives/discussion.mdwn
+++ b/faq/sata_disk_drives/discussion.mdwn
@@ -238,3 +238,21 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
     <braunr> i'll stick with ide for now, but at least setting sata with
       libvirt was quite easy to do
     <braunr> so we can easily switch later
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-10-22
+
+    <teythoon> youpi: do I need to do anything to enable the ahci driver?
+      gnumach 1.4 should include it, right?
+    <youpi> it should, yes
+    <youpi> make sure to put your board in ahci mode, not raid mode
+    <youpi> (and not ata mode)
+    <teythoon> youpi: hm, I will try to do so
+    <teythoon> youpi: does the driver print anything to the console?
+    <youpi> teythoon: yes, AHCI SATA 00:04.0 BAR 0xfebf1000 IRQ 11
+    <teythoon> youpi: well, the bios has two modes of operation, 'raid' and
+      'ide', I selected 'ide'
+    <youpi> ergl
+    <teythoon> youpi: hm, I think my board has no ahci controller, linux uses
+      the sata_via module to talk to it :/
+    <youpi> ah :/