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New GNU Hurd Kernel Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-just-chewing-their-cud dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "I don't know if there is much interest out there, but GNU Mach Kernel 1.3 was just released a couple days ago. (May 28)." Looking forward to that 2002 release...

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  1. In case it gets slashdoted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The latest release of GNU Mach is version 1.3, 2002-05-28. It features:

    * Bug fixes.
    * The kernel now directly supports "boot scripts" in the form of multiboot module names with the same syntax as the Hurd's serverboot program. That is, instead of telling GRUB module /boot/serverboot, you can give GRUB a series of commands like module /hurd/ext2fs ${...} where the syntax after module is the same as in boot scripts for Hurd's serverboot.
    * The kernel message device kmsg is now enabled by default. --disable-kmsg turns it off.
    * Large disks (>= 10GB) are now correctly supported, the new get_status call DEV_GET_RECORDS can return the number of records of a device.
    * Lots of tweaks have been done to the virtual memory management to make it perform better on today's machines.
    * The console supports ANSI escape sequences for colors and attributes.
    * Support for the terminal speeds B57600 and B115200 has been added.

  2. Re:Get it right by qwerpoiu · · Score: 0, Redundant

    My math skills are far from what they used to be, but something divided by the same thing becomes one. Hence Gnu/Gnu = 1, so it should be 1 Hurd. And who cares about that 1 anyways? So it's should be Hurd.

    No, Gnu/Gnu Hurd = 1/ Hurd. It's the "1/Hurd" OS! Hmm, sounds like "One overheard"...