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Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 Released

Posted by Soulskill on 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.

3 of 52 comments (clear)

  1. Huh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why is it 3 1.7 GB ISOs on 3 DVDs instead of 2 DVDs?

    in fact, why is it 5.2 GB?

  2. systemd? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    I'd imagine no since it's not a Linux kernel. Would that mean this is the last release we'll see of Debian GNU/Herd since the next release of Debian will be full of systemd-dependencies?

  3. Re:init changed by byuu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Thankfully, Poettering is staunchly anti-portability, so systemd can't run on *BSD or Hurd. I consider that the only positive feature of systemd.