Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters

It has been three years since the last report, but the Debian GNU/Hurd project is moving along. Several releases have been made, the most recent was in December 2007. It would appear that many developers are using virtualization to the run the distribution: "Besides qemu, which can be very slow to run, a Xen DomU port for GNU Mach has been made available by Samuel Thibault. It requires a non-PAE hypervisor and some minor manual tweaking, but is otherwise quite functional and stable already, see its wiki page[4] for further information. This will make people running the Hurd less dependent on specific hardware, as a lot of newer computers do not work with the underlying GNU Mach kernel anymore." Click below for the full report.

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