The K16 CD images are now available.
See the Hurd CD page for further information.
The K15 CD images are now available.
See the Hurd CD page for further information.
The K14 CD images are now available.
See the Hurd CD page for further information.
The K11 CD mini image is now available.
See the Hurd CD page for further information.
The K10 CD and DVD images are now available.
See the Hurd CD page for further information.
The K9 CD Images are now available.
See the Hurd CD page for further information.
The K8 CD Images are now available. These Images support Filesystems bigger
than 2 GB and feature an update of the network device drivers.
See the Hurd CD page for further information.
After a long time of not being updated, new CVS snapshots of the Hurd and GNU Mach are uploaded.
The K4 CD images are now available. See the Hurd CD page for further information.
The K3 CD images are now available.
They have been renamed to GNU-K3-CDx.iso
See the Hurd CD page for further information.
The K2 CD images are now available. See the Hurd CD page for further information.
The J2 CD images are now available. See the Hurd CD page for further information.
Upgrading Debian GNU/Hurd from a libio-based system before 2002-08-12 (including J1 CD series).
Updating a Debian GNU/Hurd system in August 2002 requires to follow the procedure outlined in the upgrade manual. This update procedure is necessary because the Hurd interfaces went through an incompatible change to prepare support of long files.
The J1 CD images are now available. See the Hurd CD page for further information.
The H3 CD images are now available. See the Hurd CD page for further information.
The H2 CD images are now available. See the Hurd CD page for further information.
The H1 CD images are now available. See the Hurd CD page for further information.
The G1 CD images are now available. See the Hurd CD page for further information.
Today is the first time we crossed the 40% mark in the statistic about up-to-date packages per architecture.
The F3 CD images are now available. See the Hurd CD page for further information.
Marcus Brinkmann has made available his presentation about the hurd. It is currently available from:
http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/talks.en.htmlCleaned up some outstanding bug reports which were closed by now. Going to upload some more packages, in addition to those uploaded in the last days (inetutils, grub, man-db, now coming hostname, mtools, ...). All those now compile without any changes, which is a good thing. Seems we are slowly stabilizing the basic set of packages.
There are patches to glue Linux character devices into GNU Mach now. These patches are very experimental, and the tty driver does not work correctly with the term translator, but we are working on it and hope to be able to provide a binary soon. Note that this will bring the Linux console to the Hurd (including color and virtual consoles), as well as drivers for various non standard mice and other serial devices.
I heard that some people are concerned about the size of GNU Mach, as well as it becoming a subset of Linux. Please note that we are only searching for a temporary solution here, until we have the time to redesign the driver interface in GNU Mach (or use another Microkernel). The microkernel is not at all that important as the Hurd servers are which run on top of it.
On the package side, we have now a proper shadow package
(which produces passwd (thanks, BenC!)). Also,
man-db should work out of the box now even with long
filenames, but I haven't checked the other changes. All in all, the
base section is getting into a good shape. Torin has applied my patch
for perl, and that's another package I have to check out
if it can be `finalized' now.
debianutils 1.12 does now compile without patch.
Source NMU for passwd (shadow) should fix
all remaining problems in this package. This should make for a
smoother install. On the other side, mutt requires a
small patch.
New packages of the core system are finished now. The Hurd has a new
way to boot (the part that happens after init is started), take a look
at /libexec/runsystem. This is useful for the
sysvinit package, which is almost done. Fixed a buglet in
GNU Lib C and one in GNU Mach. Autodetection of all network cards
should work now, but maybe we need to tweak the order a bit (3c5x9
before 3c59x).
cpio 2.4.2-25 fixes the remaining Hurd compatibility issue
and can now be compiled without changes. Thanks Brian!
Perl 5.005.03 patches submitted to the maintainer. The upstream code was already clean (thanks, Mark!), but the Debian packaging scripts were linux specific.
