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GNU Hurd 0.7 and GNU Mach 1.6 Released

Posted by timothy on from the give-the-kid-with-the-beard-more-candy dept.

jones_supa writes: Halloween brought us GNU Hurd 0.7, GNU Mach 1.6, and GNU MIG 1.6. The new Hurd comes with filesystem driver improvements, provides a new rpcscan utility, and the Hurd code has been ported to work with newer versions of GCC and GNU C Library. The Mach microkernel has updates for compiler compatibility, improvements to the lock debugging infrastructure, the kernel now lets non-privileged users write to a small amount of memory, timestamps are now kept relative to boot time, and there are various bugfixes. MIG 1.6 is a small update which improves compatibility with newer dialects of C programming language. Specific details on all of the updates can be found in the full release announcement. jrepin adds some more details: The GNU Hurd 0.7 improves the node cache for the EXT2 file-system code (ext2fs), improves the native fakeroot tool, provides a new rpcscan utility, and fixes a long-standing synchronization issue with the file-system translators and other components. The GNU Mach 1.6 microkernel also has updates for compiler compatibility, improvements to the lock debugging infrastructure, the kernel now lets non-privileged users write to a small amount of memory, timestamps are now kept relative to boot time, and there are various bug-fixes.

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  1. I'll be interested in Hurd when... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Systemd is ported

  2. Re:WHY?? by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why does the HURD exist?

    To prove that the clean design of a micro kernel architecture enables the development of more features than can be achieved with an old-fashioned monolithic kernel, and that these features can be delivered on a faster schedule.

  3. Re:Year of the Hurd Desktop? by AchilleTalon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Too late, the desktop doesn't exist anymore.

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    Achille Talon
    Hop!
  4. Re:Hurd.. why? by Daemonik · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think it's mainly maintained by Stallman fanatics who still bare death grudges against Linus for stealing their thunder, to be honest.

    They gather at the gnarled roots of his wretched toes, surviving on Jolt cola and Stallman's beard fungus as they furiously translate their eldritch acid dreams into holy code all the while gnashing their teeth at any mention of the dread thief Linus.

    LINUS!!! That thief of dreams, murderer of hope, that foul bandit who ran off with their sacred GNU!! His every fetid caress of the GNU corrupts it with corporate appeasance!! HE MUST BE STOPPED!!

    .... and so they chitter in binary under the caressing shade of Stallman's girth, preparing for the day of their triumph... they need not success, the accolades of the masses, those putrid sheeple!... they have their purity..

  5. Re:Year of the Hurd Desktop? by ClickOnThis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't worry. At the rate they're going, they'll be up to 1.0 by 2030.

    Or maybe 2059? Obligatory XKCD.

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    If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
  6. Re:Hurd.. why? by rasmusbr · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have been browsing the web with Debian Iceweasel on a Hurd VM in Virtualbox for about two hours now (this is the no-joke part of the post, I even watched a couple of clips on youtube) and I've done a little bit of research on the state of the project. About 80% of Debian packages actually run...

    I have not attempted to compile Wine, but I hear it's been working since 2013...

    OpenGL support is being worked on, of course...

    You know what that means.

    Yes. It will happen. As the prophecy foretells.

    Someone will eventually play Duke Nukem Forever on Hurd.