Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 Released

Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 1, 2015 @08:38AM from the onward-and-upward dept.

An anonymous reader sends this announcement from the debian-hurd mailing list: It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2015. This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the stable Debian "jessie" release (April 2015), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release. The installation ISO images can be downloaded from Debian Ports in the usual three Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, or DVD. Besides the friendly Debian installer, a pre-installed disk image is also available there, making it even easier to try Debian GNU/Hurd. The easiest way to run it is inside a VM such as qemu.

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init changed by Tim+the+Gecko · 2015-05-01 08:51 · Score: 3, Informative

The announcement:

"the init system has been switched to sysvinit for a more Debian-like experience"
The current Debian init experience (according to Slashdot comments):

"Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."