Phoronix reports that version 0.6 of GNU Hurd has been released. Before getting too excited about GNU Hurd, it's still bound to x86 32-bit and doesn't offer any compelling new features.
GNU Hurd 0.6 has "numerous cleanups and stylistic fixes" to the code-base, the message dispatching code in Hurd servers is now better, there's support for protected payloads of GNU March 1.5+, libz/libz2 are used as the decompressors to replace gz/bz2, the native fakeroot has improved, the performance of the integer hashing library has improved, and the init server has been split into the start-up server and a SysVinit-style program. The procfs and random translators were also merged.
More details on the new GNU Hurd release can be found via the 0.6 release announcement issued by Thomas Schwinge.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by gnuman on Friday April 17 2015, @05:41PM
http://xkcd.com/1508/ [xkcd.com]
stylistic fixes" to the code-base
I'm sorry, but this shouldn't even make the changelong, never mind the news. Style fixes are the most benign of changes. What is the niche that HURD wants to occupy anyway?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @05:33AM
Oh, so it WILL be ready. 2060, hey? I can play with it in my dotage...