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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: 2, Insightful) by dime on Friday April 17 2015, @07:16PM

    by dime (1163) on Friday April 17 2015, @07:16PM (#172156)

    Live kernel patching infrastructure put into mainline is not a compelling new feature?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @12:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @12:36AM (#172239)

    Sounds like a huge security risk to me.

    • (Score: 2) by darkfeline on Saturday April 18 2015, @11:58PM

      by darkfeline (1030) on Saturday April 18 2015, @11:58PM (#172645) Homepage

      Computers are a huge security risk.

      Actually, I take that back: humans are a huge security risk.

      Seriously though, with good practices, I don't see live kernel patching as being a significant increase in risk. Even if it were, you can just compile Linux without it.

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