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