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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2015, @06:53PM
When Slashdot ran this news article, the comments were lame. Really lame. A bunch of thoughtless GNU bashing
You mean hilarious GNU bashing, made even more hilarious because it obviously irritates people like you.
I think GNU HURD is a really good thing. I'm glad people work on it. I'm glad people still believe.
I'm not so glad they're so freaking self unaware that they can't understand how hilarious HURD seems to people outside their community; a little humility goes a long way.
(Score: 1) by SubiculumHammer on Friday April 17 2015, @07:02PM
I barely know what GNU is about, and I hardly got irritated.. I was just asking for our community to show more class than I saw on Slashdot.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2015, @07:10PM
I was just asking for our community to show more class than I saw on Slashdot.
You could at least try setting the bar a little higher. ;)
(Different AC FWIW.)