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-I am pleased to announce version 0.2 of the GNU Hurd, available via
-anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu [18.159.0.42] in the file
-/pub/gnu/hurd-0.2.tar.gz (about 1.37 MB compressed).
-
-(The GNU Hurd, plus Mach, is a kernel, not an operating system. The
-GNU operating system, like the Unix operating system, consists of many
-components, including kernel, libraries, compilers, assembler, shell,
-parser generators, utilities, window system, editors, text formatters,
-and so on. The GNU project set out a decade ago to develop this
-system, and we've been writing various components of it ever since.)
-
-This release contains many bug fixes from version 0.1. Many thanks to
-all the people who are helping find bugs!
-
-The best way you can help find bugs is to try and compile and use on
-the Hurd as many programs as you can find and find out where bugs
-still exist. There are also unimplemented features, and your reports
-will help us to prioritize which things we work on.
-
-The system is vastly more reliable than it has been in the past.
-
-One important addition:
-
- New programs addauth, rmauth, unsu, su, and setauth modify the uid
- sets of running programs. Using addauth you can add root to your
- emacs, write a file, and then use rmauth to take the uid back. (Of
- course, passwords are required when necessary.) New program `ids'
- will tell you what all the user ids are that a program has. Note
- that in the Hurd a program can have several user ids all at once,
- just like Unix supports having several group ids. Now that you can
- dynamically change the ids of running programs, system
- administration (among other things) becomes much easier.
-
-For more detailed news, see the NEWS file in the distribution.
-
-This release contains complete source code for the following:
-
-Hurd servers:
-
- auth, crash, devport, exec, ext2fs, fifo, fwd, ifsock, init,
- magic, new-fifo, nfs, null, pfinet, pflocal, proc, symlink, term,
- ufs, storeio, firmlink.
-
-Hurd libraries:
-
- diskfs, fshelp, ihash, iohelp, netfs, pager, pipe, ports, ps,
- shouldbeinlibc, store, threads, trivfs, hurdbugaddr, ftpconn
-
-Hurd utilities and other programs:
-
- boot, shd, ps, settrans, showtrans, sync, su, mount, fsysopts,
- storeinfo, login, w, uptime, ids, sush, vmstat, portinfo, devprobe,
- reboot, halt, fsck, fsck.ufs, mkfs.ufs, clri.ufs, stati.ufs, getty,
- rc, e2os, vminfo, nfsd, mail.local, serverboot, MAKEDEV, loginpr,
- addauth, rmauth, unsu, setauth, ftpcp, ftpdir.
-
-We are also making a complete GNU 0.2 binary release, which will
-include Hurd 0.2, glibc 2.0.4, gnumach 1.1.2, and many other
-programs. This binary release is announced separately.
-
-
-Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG