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GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit

posted by martyb on Friday April 17 2015, @05:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the whole-bunch-of-hairy-beasts dept.

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.

 
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  • (Score: 1, Redundant) by urza9814 on Friday April 17 2015, @06:37PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Friday April 17 2015, @06:37PM (#172141) Journal

    I considered that, but there are still plenty of systemd-free Linux distros that seem to be far ahead of Hurd. For example, a two or three year old release of any distro that's been around that long :)

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  • (Score: 2) by CoolHand on Friday April 17 2015, @07:19PM

    by CoolHand (438) on Friday April 17 2015, @07:19PM (#172158) Journal

    Devuan is getting closer to a release.. I know they have some testing vm's to download and I think they have a testing .iso now and sound like it's getting close.. hopefully the succeed..

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2015, @07:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2015, @07:48PM (#172174)

    You don't seem to be aware that, before they adopted (Linux-only) systemd, Debian had a spin that used a non-Linux kernel.
    kFreeBSD [google.com]

    Did that offer great utility relative to Torvalds' kernel?
    You'll have to ask the folks that run/ran it.

    -- gewg_

    • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday April 20 2015, @07:05PM

      by urza9814 (3954) on Monday April 20 2015, @07:05PM (#173239) Journal

      Actually, I am aware of that -- used to have a couple servers running Debian kFreeBSD. But BSD is far ahead of HURD too, isn't it?