Re: [archhurd-devel] News Draft: New LiveCD, Almost HAMP, and Stability

[Alexander Preisinger <alexander.preisinger@gmail.com>]

2010/8/25 Michael S. Walker <mike@barrucadu.co.uk>:
> New LiveCD, Almost HAMP, and Stability
>
> Since the last progress-related (rather than website-related) news
> item, way back in June, we have made good progress - do not think that
> we've been doing nothing!
>
> Matthias Lanzinger (melpo) has rolled out updated GNU Mach, Hurd, and
> glibc packages which have made Arch Hurd a much more stable system. It
> seems that running `vmstat 5` in another TTY may be a thing of the past
> now. Additionally, melpo has gone on holiday (in part) to recover from
> Arch Hurd stress. Hopefully we haven't been too demanding, and we hope
> he has fun in Japan.
>
> Alexander Preisinger (giselher) has recently given us updated Xorg
> packages which are more reliable than the old ones, and so X is
> actually in a usable state now, for most users!

The is due to a patch melpo applied to glibc, that improves X responsivness.


 Additionally, giselher
> has made great progress in enabling us to use a HAMP system - by
> packaging Apache and MySQL, though he is still working on PHP. It seems
> someone at Linode is watching us, as a comment on his blog from
> "Linode" suggested a HCMP system - Hurd, Cherokee, MariaDB, and PHP.
>
> Michael Walker (barrucadu) has released today a new LiveCD (if you try
> to download it and the mirrors don't have the file yet, please use the
> torrent) with updated packages and bug fixes. A more in-depth coverage
> of the new LiveCD can be found on his blog [link].
>
> Due to an overwhelming surge in LiveCD downloads in the past month,
> barrucadu has found us some package and livecd mirrors; two in Germany
> and one in the UK. Many thanks go to our mirror providers at
> narfhosting.com, disposed.de, and positive-internet.com.
>
> In other news, there are now two more subdomains on archhurd.org:
>
>  * blogs.archhurd.org - a collection of developer blogs (currently only
>   giselher's)
>  * planet.archhurd.org - our very own blog planet, currently featuring
>   barrucadu's, melpo's, and giselher's blogs.
>
> And our package count keeps growing! We have recently surpassed 250
> packages, and show no sign of slowing down. Though that'll probably
> change with the start of the next academic year as we head off to
> various universities and whatnot, but fear not! We'll still be working,
> if a bit slower.
>
> Of course, as usual, our thanks go to the legions of Hurd, Debian, and
> Arch developers without whom Arch Hurd would not be possible. We may be
> making good progress, but we're standing on the shoulders of giants to
> do so.
>
> -----
>
> Have I missed anything?
>
> I haven't written a blog post on the new livecd yet, but will do soon.
> I shall then publish the news and my blog post at about the same time.
>

Looks good :)