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: 2) by frojack on Friday April 17 2015, @08:02PM
Why is it disappointing?
(Look, I'm not trying to be a smart ass here, I really don't know about Hurd and I don't know a single person that ever even bothered to install it. What is it good for?)
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @12:34AM
Like war, GNU Hurd is good for absolutely nothing.