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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) by FatPhil on Saturday April 18 2015, @10:40AM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Saturday April 18 2015, @10:40AM (#172348) Homepage
    > protected mode would impose a 3x penalty speed wise.

    As a dabbler in the graphics demo scene in the early-mid 90s, all I can say is "whaaaaat!!??!?". Everyone used Tran's pmode, *everyone*.
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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday April 18 2015, @11:04AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday April 18 2015, @11:04AM (#172354) Journal

    Have a look at the 80386 clock cycles per op-code for real vs protected mode.