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diff --git a/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn b/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn index bb3f83ec..99398d27 100644 --- a/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn +++ b/community/meetings/fosdem_2013.mdwn @@ -37,12 +37,14 @@ Full name: Samuel Thibault Short abstract: GNU/Hurd aims at being a general-purpose Operating System with a strong emphasis -on flexibility and freedom for the user. It has however a long-term vaporware -reputation. Development has indeed been relatively dormant for some time, but -recent regain of interest has brought interesting improvements, to the point -that there will be a non-official release of the GNU/Hurd variant of Debian -Wheezy, with about 75% of the Debian packages, including classical graphical -desktop application (gnome, gnumeric, firefox, ...) +on flexibility and freedom for the user, and thus based on a design made +of a micro-kernel surrounded by a hird of userland servers. It has however +a long-term vaporware reputation; development has indeed been relatively +dormant for some time, but recent regain of interest has brought interesting +improvements and stabilization, to the point that there will be a non-official +release of the GNU/Hurd variant of Debian Wheezy, with about 75% of the Debian +packages, including classical graphical desktop application (gnome, gnumeric, +firefox, ...) This talk will present to GNU/Hurd in general and its "translator" mechanism which replaces the traditional notion of filesystem, so as to provide strong |