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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.

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  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. init changed by Tim+the+Gecko · · 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."

    1. 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.

  3. Oh, yeah? by halivar · · Score: 5, Funny

    MY distro is emacs on systemd.

    1. Re:Oh, yeah? by vux984 · · Score: 4, Funny

      You've got it upside dowm. I run systemd on emacs.

    2. Re:Oh, yeah? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      My distro IS systemd.

      Everything else is redundant.

  4. Re:Could this be.. by tnk1 · · Score: 2

    I think they announced that back in 1977 as part of the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the start of the HURD project.

  5. Re:still only 32-bit by tnk1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've always felt that using 64 whole bits has been a waste of good address space. I'm glad HURD agrees. I'm actually contributing a patch to get them back down to 16-bit mode with the holy grail of finally returning to 8-bit. I have always felt that if you're running on a microkernel you should run with a micro address space too.

  6. Congratulations by MythicalMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was about to make an ironical comment but decided to send a positive message. I will do the same when they release the next version (supposing that I will still be alive at that time).

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    --- Signature? You must be kidding!