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GNU Hurd 0.6 Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the brand-new dept.

jrepin writes It has been roughly a year and a half since the last release of the GNU Hurd operating system, so it may be of interest to some readers that GNU Hurd 0.6 has been released along with GNU Mach 1.5 (the microkernel that Hurd runs on) and GNU MIG 1.5 (the Mach Interface Generator, which generates code to handle remote procedure calls). New features include procfs and random translators; cleanups and stylistic fixes, some of which came from static analysis; message dispatching improvements; integer hashing performance improvements; a split of the init server into a startup server and an init program based on System V init; and more.

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  1. Mandatory xkcd by NotInHere · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://xkcd.com/1508/

  2. Both users by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was rumored that both users could be hurd rejoicing.

  3. Too bad... by TsuruchiBrian · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's too bad Linus wasted all this time making a temporary kernel that was just going to be surpassed a mere 24+? years later by the official GNU kernel. Nothing stings more than when the code you write isn't being used.

  4. Re:0.6? Are you serious? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    He hasn't finished his answer yet. Check back in a few years.