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01/03: website: hello-hurd: Clarify the joke part.


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: 01/03: website: hello-hurd: Clarify the joke part.
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 09:26:07 -0400 (EDT)

civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix-artwork.

commit be011de2b891614924738e6070da281e47fccc7c
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
AuthorDate: Mon Apr 6 14:03:19 2020 +0200

    website: hello-hurd: Clarify the joke part.
    
    * website/drafts/hello-hurd.md: Avoid abbreviation in title.  Add
    paragraph stating that Linux-libre is not deprecated.  Say "cross-build"
    instead of "build".
---
 website/drafts/hello-hurd.md | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/website/drafts/hello-hurd.md b/website/drafts/hello-hurd.md
index a029ac4..d18ad4d 100644
--- a/website/drafts/hello-hurd.md
+++ b/website/drafts/hello-hurd.md
@@ -1,13 +1,20 @@
-title: A `Hello World' VM running the Hurd
+title: A “Hello World†virtual machine running the Hurd
 date: 2020-04-06 09:00
 author: Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Ludovic Courtès
 tags: GNU Hurd
 ---
 Hello GNU World!
 
+There’s been a bit of speculation as to whether our [April 1st
+post](https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/deprecating-support-for-the-linux-kernel/)
+was a joke.  Part of it was a joke: we’re _not_ deprecating Linux-libre,
+fear not!  But when we published it, it was already April 2nd in Eastern
+part of the world and thus, not surprisingly, the remainder of the post
+was less of a joke.
+
 For all you who tried our April 1st image and ran `guix` we sure hope
-you had a good laugh.  We set out to build that image using Guix and
-while we made some good progress on Wednesday in the end we decided to
+you had a good laugh.  We set out to cross-build that image using Guix and
+while we made some good progress on Wednesday, in the end we decided to
 cheat to make the release deadline.
 
 What we got stuck on for a while was to get past the ex2fs server



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