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Hurd: H2 CD Images
An anonymous submitter sends in: "The Debian GNU/Hurd team released a new Hurd CD Image. Snapshot images are produced at a four to eight week interval and the H2 images are the tenth of the series. The Hurd has grown from one CD image in August 2000 (A1) to four images in December 2001 (H2). These images are snapshots of a developing operating system, so suitable precautions must be taken when making an installation. Similar to other architectures, most important programs reside on CD 1, while the other ones contain less important packages. For the moment, Hurd doesn't support card sound and partition size is still limited to 1 GB. Hurd use the Debian packaging system (dpkg and apt as for Debian linux) , so it is simple to install and update packages."
he said in the post that Hurd was not far away. This was ten years ago, and we're still waiting.
maybe if slashdot talks a litle bit more about it more ppl will join and code for it... maybe...
What ? Me, worry ?
Micro-Kernel Unix is NOT a new idea ... in fact m68kppc linux distro for the apples was in fact a mach kernel linux distro.
Security ... yeah ... because no one uses it for anything mission critical and no one has gone in to take a look at what all _can_ go wrong yet.
Linux, BSD, Other FreeOS's ... There's already a mass market out there of free operating systems the Hurd is only a GNU stunt to put GNU on yet another thing and managed to get enough people to work on it so that GNU can once and for all dump linux.
The only problem with dumping linux ... would be that without linux there wouldn't be ANY GNU hype ... sure people would know about it, but no one would care. It's linux that brought GNU to this level and I think that linux should be respected ... not yelled at because it doesn't have GNU in front of it. And why isn't it GNU Linux? Simple ... GNU wants hurd ... not linux ...
So HURD has CD-Images ... BFD ...
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
Gee, Hurd is using package tools developed originally for Linux (and C library work that was done for Linux, and compiler improvements that were driven by Linux users, and ...), so RMS should give credit where credit is due. It should be more properly called Linux/Hurd, or maybe just HurL.