Greetings, It has been almost three years since the last "Bits from Debian GNU/Hurd porters[1]", it's time for an update on the port[2]. * Installation CDs Jeremie Koenig spent the 2010 summer on the Debian Installer, and with a couple other fixes, we now have a working CD set[3]! We also have a ready-to-go qemu image[4]. * 0.401 release On 2011 April 1st, a 0.401 release was published[5] with varying reaction from hackers. * ftp-master, wheezy release goal We had a meeting with ftp-master. Since hurd-i386 is in not-bad shape, it was agreed to keep hurd-i386 in the archive until the wheezy release, to give it a chance to release wheezy. Failing that it will be dropped from the archive and have to go back to debian-ports. We thus aim at releasing wheezy, at least as a technical preview like kfreebsd did with squeeze. We have a TODO list for this[6]. * Archive coverage Thanks to the efforts of various Debian/Hurd porters, the percentage of packages built for Debian GNU/Hurd is reaching about 68%. The autobuilders are keeping the pace relavitely nicely. The remaining 32% of packages are either waiting for other packages to become available (see [7] for a (big) graph of those relationships) or are failing for some reason[8]; a complete list of build failures can be found at [9]. * Developer machine The strauss.debian.net machine is a DD-accessible box, and accounts can be opened to non-DD alioth members on request to admin@strauss.debian.net * Hardware support The gnumach hardware support is still stuck at Linux 2.0 drivers (though the Xen support permits to easily run it fast on recent hardware). Zheng Da has been working on using the DDE layer to seamlessly integrate Linux 2.6 drivers in userland processes. The network card support is basically working on real hardware, and the overhead is quite low. We are now integrating this work in the main repository, so as to easily and safely get nowadays hardware support. for the Debian GNU/Hurd porters, Samuel Thibault [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/09/msg00004.html [2] http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd [3] http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage [4] http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/debian-hurd.img.tar.gz [5] http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-0.401/ [6] http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/Hurd [7] http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/graph-radial.pdf [8] http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/hurd/porting/guidelines/ [9] http://unstable.buildd.net/buildd/hurd-i386_Failed.html
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