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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/

    1. Re:Mandatory xkcd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Actually I was pretty happy with the systemd learning curve. What I wasn't happy about was not being able to figure out why my network interface insisted on getting a DHCP address despite the fact I had explicitly disabled DHCP and assigned a static IP address to it via the unit files, because *there was no log of what unit/configuration files were being executed/read and when*, and - as far as I'm aware - there is no way to enable logging or figure out exactly what is going on.

      And just think, with System V Init or RC scripts I could have just added a few "echo" statements to figure out what was going on instead of Googling for several hours until I found what the actual problem was.

      THAT is what is stupid about systemd.

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

    It was rumored that both users could be hurd rejoicing.

  3. 0.6? Are you serious? by msobkow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They announced work on Hurd when I was still in university. I've worked a career, ended up disabled, retired, and spent years on a pet project since then, producing 13 point releases. Over 30 years have gone by.

    Yet they've still only reached release 0.6? So one decimal point release every FIVE YEARS?

    Jesus.

    Stick a fork in this project.

    It's done -- as in dead. Pushing up daisies. Pining for the fjords. Defunct. Deceased. Non functional.

    It's not even worthy of being called a pipe dream any more. Even "Duke Nukem' Forever" beat them to the punch, and everyone gave up on that project long before it was released.

    --
    I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Interesting discussion by peppepz · · Score: 5, Insightful

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    - Slashdot deprecator ("slashdot is no longer a nice site to read these days").