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+From: mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I. Bushnell, p/BSG)
+Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
+Subject: Hurd 0.0 release status
+Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss
+Date: 13 Jul 1996 23:53:41 GMT
+Organization: Touring Consulting Services
+Lines: 35
+Message-ID: <MIB.96Jul13195341@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
+NNTP-Posting-Host: churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu
+
+
+People are eager to know how close we are to release, so here's an
+update:
+
+There is one rather annoying bug I'd like to find which is causing
+random crashes.  I expect this will not be too hard to locate.  There
+are some more trivial bugs, but the release will not be held up for
+them. 
+
+Forty-three packages of GNU software have been built native.
+Remaining to be built are three packages for which new releases are
+expected soon.
+
+Also remaining to be built native are bash, gdb, mach, the Hurd
+itself, and the internet utilities and daemons.  We intend to sync our
+separate copy of libc source with the libc maintainer, and then build
+it native too.
+
+Because of obnoxious export restrictions, we have still to make
+separate shared libraries for the crypt functions.
+
+Except for the actual final packaging, all the release engineering
+tasks to be done have been completed.
+
+
+To summarize, we still need to:
+
+o Fix one obnoxious bug
+o Compile three packages that are waiting for release;
+o Compile gdb, bash, mach, and hurd native
+o Sync libc source and compile native
+o Deal with crypt shared libraries
+o Final packaging
+
+Michael
+
+From: mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I. Bushnell, p/BSG)
+Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
+Subject: Re: Hurd--ne plus ultra of vaporware?
+Date: 17 Jul 1996 03:02:14 GMT
+
+In article <4sg6tp$n4t@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
+
+   Hey! We could also ask some well-known rock-group for one of their
+   lyrics, and use that as the theme song for the Hurd release.  And then
+   we could ask shops to stay open longer to sell the Hurd! Whaddaya think?
+   Don't say it has been delayed, just shout so loudly about all the new
+   features that nobody cares about the delay?
+
+Perhaps we could get Morrisey to sing the song.  He's very good
+looking.  Much better looking than that Mick Jagger fellow.
+
+Or something delicate, like Bach's French Suite in G.  That would be
+fun.  
+
+In any case, here's the state of the release:
+
+o Everything but nine packages has been compiled native.
+o The random crash bug I alluded to is fixed.
+o We have to build a floppy image for part of the installation instructions.
+
+That's it.  I bet you nobody in Redmond has ever made a statement like
+that...
+
+Michael
+