web commit by http://arnebab.livejournal.com/: reformulating to make the Debian releases sound more positive.

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 [[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
-The last official release of the Hurd was 0.2.  An 
-eminent release is not planned.  There are a number of
-reasons for this. 
+The Hurd team doesn't create hurd-only releases, but instead relies 
+on a distribution done by folks from Debian. 
 
-One is that the Hurd is not sufficently stable or feature
+That Debian version closely tracks the progress of the Hurd 
+(and often includes many new features), 
+so little would be gained by creating an official pure Hurd release. 
+
+[[Debian GNU/Hurd|running/debian]] offers livecds and qemu images 
+to test-drive the Hurd in a real life system with access to about 
+50% of the Debian software archive. 
+
+
+That said, the last official release of the Hurd was 0.2. 
+
+New official releases will be done, as soon as 
+the Hurd is sufficently stable and feature
 complete.  If an official release of the Hurd were made
 now, people would try the Hurd and be disappointed.  People
 already expect delays; to disappoint them in this way as
 well would be unfortunate. Moreover, it lessens the
 possibility that they will try the Hurd again in the future.
 
-Another reason is that, Debian provides a [[distribution|running/debian]] that
-closely tracks Hurd development (and often includes many
-new features).  Little is to be gained by making an official
-release.