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

Why bother?

[nbvb]

Why bother using this rubbish? 10 years ago, this was a good idea. Now that RMS has flipped his lid, who cares?

I don't give a Flying Pig (tm) about Free vs. free vs. Not-so-free vs. You-gotta-pay-for-it. The only thing that matters to me is whether it WORKS.

On the list of OS's that are usable and make the Hurd just another blip on the screen:

OS/2
Mac OS X
Solaris
HP-UX
AIX
Linux (all flavors)
IRIX
Mac OS 9
AmigaOS
BeOS

why bother with another one that can't even keep up with OS/2? :-)

Re:first hurd post!

[uninet]

Technically it isn't, even though it is. :-) If something is so free, that in it's second or third generation of modifications it can become unfree, how can it be "freer" than something that will *always* be free. How much Linux code do you think is built into Windows or other proprietary OSes?