Hurd: H2 CD Images

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday December 30, 2001 @07:11AM from the free-with-a-capital-f dept.

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."

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Re:what is hurd? by Magus311X · 2001-12-30 07:28 · Score: 5, Informative

http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html
Re:What are technical advantages of Hurd? by mindstrm · 2001-12-30 08:09 · Score: 5, Informative

Because they want to work with something new.
Because they have some ideas as to how the hurd could be adapted to their purposes.
The list goes on.

A lot of people are saying things like 'this will take years to reach the popularity of linux' or 'until it has all the bells and whistles'. Hello....

Who ever said the hurd was supposed to be ready yet? I don't recall hearing it. The hurd is there for people to work on because they want to, period.

There was a time when Linux was just as much of an ugly duckling, you know.. where nobody would use it for anything serious. It was something to be tinkered with, nothing more.