FOSDEM 2007

Hello!

We should pull ourselves together and announce who will be at FOSDEM
(Brussels, Belgium; <http://fosdem.org/2007/>) in February.

On 24th and 25th is the conference, but no one can stop us from already
meeting earlier or staying longer.

And even more importantly, we need statements who would like to stay with
us together in an appartment during those days; the wiki page at
<http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Hug/FOSDEM2007> still looks a bit
sparse with regard to that.  So, please, either update it yourself or
tell me to do it for you.

After having stayed in a youth hostel last year, Wouter van Heyst
(LarstiQ) offered to take a look-around for a suitable appartment this
year, but that should happen rather now than later and for that we need
to know for how many people we have to calculate.

Regards,
 Thomas

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Hurd Critique and position paper available

Hello!

The following was just installed on the homepage, <http://hurd.gnu.org/>,
but I wanted to take the chance to present it here as well:

#v+
14 January 2007

Neal Walfield and Marcus Brinkmann have written and submitted for publication
``A Critique of the GNU Hurd Multi-server Operating System''
(<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2007-01/msg00046.html>) and a
position paper ``Improving Usability via Access Decomposition and Policy
Refinement''
(<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/l4-hurd/2007-01/msg00007.html>).  Please
follow the two preceding links to see the complete announcements.  The authors
welcome comments and discussion which may be directed to the <bug-hurd <at> gnu.org>
mailing list for the Critique and to the <l4-hurd <at> gnu.org> mailing list for the
position paper.

The abstract of the Critique:

  The GNU Hurd's design was motivated by a desire to rectify a number of
  observed shortcomings in Unix.  Foremost among these is that many policies
  that limit users exist simply as remnants of the design of the system's
  mechanisms and their implementation. To increase extensibility and
  integration, the Hurd adopts an object-based architecture and defines
  interfaces, which, in particular those for the composition of and access to
  name spaces, are virtualizable.

  This paper is first a presentation of the Hurd's design goals and a