Re: News items for Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 release?
jbranso@dismail.de, le lun. 04 août 2025 12:25:23 +0000, a ecrit:
> August 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM, "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@gnu.org mailto:samuel.thibault@gnu.org?to=%22Samuel%20Thibault%22%20%3Csamuel.thibault%40gnu.org%3E > wrote:
> > As Debian Trixie is to be released this week-end, I'll publish iso
> > images for a Debian GNU/Hurd 2025. The question is what features did we
> > collect since 2023, to be put in the news? On the top of my head I can
> > think of the following mainlines:
> >
> > - obviously, now-working 64b support with the same ~ 70% Debian archive
> > coverage (actually a bit more than 32b since some packages are
> > 64b-only)
> > - this port is completely using userland disk drivers from FreeBSD
> > thanks to the Rump layer.
> > - we now use xattr by default for recording translators, allowing to
> > bootstrap seamlessly from other OSes, with mmdebstrap for instance.
> > - rust was ported
> > - USB disk&cd support
> > - quite-working SMP support
> > - the console is now using xkb for keyboard layouts, and supports
> > multiboot-provided framebuffer
> > - various additional support (acpi, rtc, apic, hpet, ...)
> > - documentation improvement
> > - various other fixes (irqs, nfsv3, libports, pipes corner cases, ...)
> >
> > (and we need to point people at the FAQ: comments in webnews show how
> > much people ask the same questions over and over without imagining that
> > perhaps the FAQ could just answer them all...)
> >
> > Do you think of anything else?
>
> Is the ext2fs journal too experimental to mention?
It's not even commited yet, so let alone in debian GNU/Hurd 2025 ;)
Samuel
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