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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: 3, Insightful) by turgid on Friday April 17 2015, @08:15PM
And what is wrong with doing an interesting hobby?
I have some pointless hobby projects too that are 15-20 years behind the times and never get finished (and never will at this rate) but I find them educational and good mental exercise.
You should see my home-made vector font rendering engine that runs on SDL 1.2... :-) Actually, no you shouldn't.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].