GNU Hurd

2009-06-30

2009-07-01T07:15:38Z

A month of the Hurd: Git migration, stand-alone libpthread and updated status. Details.

This month Thomas Schwinge finished migrating the main Hurd, GNU Mach, MIG, libpthread and unionfs to Git. You can find the new repositories at http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/.

Also, he made libpthread buildable stand-alone by separating its build system from the Hurd's.

Additionally, Olaf Buddenhagen wrote a usability report about his experience with the GNU Hurd for everyday work.

2009-04-20

2009-06-08T13:52:25Z

Sergiu Ivanov will be working on unionmount translators during the Google Summer of Code 2009.

2009-03-28

2009-05-18T16:16:38Z

The application phase for the Google Summer of Code 2009 has already started. Please see our page about the GSoC for details of how to apply for your favorite Hurd project.

2008-12-12

2009-05-18T16:16:38Z

Neal Walfield has submitted a paper to EuroSys 2009 describing how resource management is done in viengoos:

Viengoos: A Framework for Stakeholder-Directed Resource Allocation.

Abstract.

General-purpose operating systems not only fail to provide adaptive applications the information they need to intelligently adapt, but also schedule resources in such a way that were applications to aggressively adapt, resources would be inappropriately scheduled. The problem is that these systems use demand as the primary indicator of utility, which is a poor indicator of utility for adaptive applications.

We present a resource management framework appropriate for traditional as well as adaptive applications. The primary difference from current schedulers is the use of stakeholder preferences in addition to demand. We also show how to revoke memory, compute the amount of memory available to each principal, and account shared memory. Finally, we introduce a prototype system, Viengoos, and present some benchmarks that demonstrate that it can efficiently support multiple aggressively adaptive applications simultaneously.

2008-11-14

2009-05-18T16:16:38Z

Samuel Thibault has implemented support for the PAE feature offered by modern x86 processors. This largely faciliates the deployment of GNU/Hurd systems running as a Xen domU on top of a standard Debian GNU/Linux Xen dom0, for example.

2008-09-11

2009-06-08T13:52:25Z

All five students who worked on the Hurd during the Google Summer of Code 2008 succeeded in their projects. For more information please see the community/gsoc page. Congratulations to both students and mentors!

2008-03-19

2009-05-18T16:16:38Z

The GNU Hurd project has been accepted as a mentoring organisation for the Google Summer of Code 2008! If you are a student and looking for a job during the summer, take a look at our project ideas list--here's your chance to help improving the GNU Hurd including mentoring from our side and being paid compensation from Google's!

The application deadline has been extended to Monday, 2008-04-07, so there's more time for you students to hand in your Hurd applications.

2008-02-11

2009-05-18T16:16:38Z

A number of GNU Hurd developers will again (as already in the previous years) meet at the time of the FOSDEM 2008, which will take place from 2008-02-23 to 24 in Brussels, Belgium.

The page about FOSDEM 2008 has some details. Contact us if you are interested in meeting with us.

2007-10-12

2009-05-18T16:16:38Z

Stefan Siegl added support for IPv6 networking to the pfinet translator.

2007-10-01

2009-05-18T16:16:38Z

This year the GNU Hurd had again been assigned one slot within the Google Summer of Code program, which was assigned to the task design and implement libchannel, a library for streams. Carl Fredrik Hammar has been working on this task and recently posted a summary about the successful work he had been doing, but also gave an outline about how he intends to continue improving and extending it.