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 FatPhil on Saturday April 18 2015, @10:40AM
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
Have a look at the 80386 clock cycles per op-code for real vs protected mode.