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."

Comments

Hurry!

[JWhiton]

Careful! Get the Hurd before the stampede!

*ducks*

Re:screenshots

[Anonymous Coward]

heh, here's one:

int proc_doulongvec_minmax(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp,
void *buffer, size_t *lenp)
{
return -ENOSYS;
}

Card Sound

[druiid]

Hmm, I've never heard of this card sound. Is this some sort of new audio technology. I guess that since linux doesn't support it either it's no wonder Hurd doesn't support it.............

Okay, I'll shut up now :)

Re:Why?

[geekster]

Well, it couldn't Hurd... BADABING!

Switch to HURD!

[jdavidb]

We should all use Hurd instead of Linux. Linux numbers disk partitions from 1 (/dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, ...), while GRUB, the Hurd bootloader, numbers partitions from 0. As any self-respecting computer scientist knows, it is more proper to index things beginning with 0. Therefore, Hurd is a superior operating system, and we should all immediately switch to Hurd.

It's the 21st Century!

[Mr_Icon]

If you write programs for linux today, you shouldn't have too many surprises when you just recompile them for Hurd in the 21st century.

-- Linus Benedict Torvalds, 31 Jan 92 10:33:23 GMT