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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 Saturday April 18 2015, @05:56AM
Fails and Dies?
Nobody has ever woken up one morning to find every instance of a particular operating system inoperable.
Maybe you mean they are replaced by something better? But that's not going to be Hurd.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Common Joe on Saturday April 18 2015, @06:37AM
I was speaking generally -- not specifically about Hurd. Also, perhaps "fail" isn't the best word, but "death" is. And as I said earlier, "death" of an O.S. won't happen overnight, but it will happen.
Computers with operating systems / Operating Systems that I have used and are no longer viable in today's world and therefore dead: TRS-80, Commodore 64, DOS, OS/2, Atari, Intellivision.
Yes, I know some of the Atari enthusiast just dug up E.T. and I've seen articles about someone running a C64 somewhere and I've seen DOS used in a few instances of business, but it's safe to say that every single one of these is either is a dead O.S. or a computer that contains a dead O.S.
Apple nearly died a few years ago and is beginning to stumble again without Steve Jobs. Microsoft is not immune from making mistakes (Vista / Windows 8). Linux just is still going through a rough patch with systemd (no matter what your feelings are about the software).
Windows, Linux, and the Mac OS will go away. That's all I was saying. And no, experience tells me that replacements aren't always better.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday April 18 2015, @03:02PM
An operating system turns inoperable when the last piece of hardware it runs on stops working.
Sure, you can revive it by porting it to new hardware, or by writing an emulator for the old hardware. But that's extra work, and unless and until someone puts that work in, the operating system is inoperable, because it cannot run on any existing, working machine.
Indeed, I'm sure there are lots of operating systems that few people ever have heard of, that turned inoperable together with the machines they were written for.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.