Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 Released 52
An anonymous reader sends this announcement from the debian-hurd mailing list: It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2015. This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the stable Debian "jessie" release (April 2015), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release. The installation ISO images can be downloaded from Debian Ports in the usual three Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, or DVD. Besides the friendly Debian installer, a pre-installed disk image is also available there, making it even easier to try Debian GNU/Hurd. The easiest way to run it is inside a VM such as qemu.
Huh (Score:2, Interesting)
Why is it 3 1.7 GB ISOs on 3 DVDs instead of 2 DVDs?
in fact, why is it 5.2 GB?
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That's good question. Looks like they were too lazy to optimize it for the ~4.5 GB DVD / layer ...
The "typical" excuse would be to help with downloads but seriously who is using a downloader that can't resume in this day and age?
Since the total is 5.2GB I wonder if they could re-compress the files down
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When putting an iso's contents on a small USB drive (while keeping the fat32 filesystem and the rest of the files!) the less place it's taking, the better ; with debian you also typically only need DVD-1.
If you do need off-line packages in DVD-2 and DVD-3, you can have the iso files stored anywhere and mount them anyway?
DVD-R are somewhat unreliable so you're less likely to fail with a smaller iso, that would be another excuse.
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That's a good point about USB. The FAT32 4GB file size limit is probably the technical reason why the files are spilt into 3 archives.
Re: Huh (Score:1)
And Yes, Kids! (Score:1)
It does run Duke Nukem Forever!
My distro is better (Score:2)
All other distros suck balls.
Oh, yeah? (Score:5, Funny)
MY distro is emacs on systemd.
Re:Oh, yeah? (Score:5, Funny)
You've got it upside dowm. I run systemd on emacs.
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M-x editctl
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why not both?
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My distro IS systemd.
Everything else is redundant.
init changed (Score:4, Informative)
The announcement:
"the init system has been switched to sysvinit for a more Debian-like experience"
The current Debian init experience (according to Slashdot comments):
"Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."
Comment removed (Score:5, Interesting)
I love Debian (Score:1)
After being away working on CentOS and Archlinx for Asterisk radio station links, I'm back on Debian... home sweet home.
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Well damn: http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/66034-systemd-again?-debian-drops-kfreebsd-as-official-architecture
In a post to the release team, Debian developer Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: "We discussed kfreebsd at length, but are not satisfied that a release with Jessie will be of sufficient quality. We are dropping it as an official release architecture, though we do hope that the porters will be able to make a simultaneous unofficial release."
One of the reasons for this decision - though un
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That last part is a bunch of bull shit.
You can run Debian without systemd with the Linux kernel just fine.
So kFreeBSD and Hurd can run without systemd just fine too.
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Yes, seems desktop environments on Debian have some dependencies on systemd.
Anyway, kFreeBSD on the server should be fine.
Could this be.. (Score:1)
.. the year of the HURD desktop?
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I think they announced that back in 1977 as part of the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the start of the HURD project.
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.. the year of the HURD desktop?
Nah. More like 2060. [xkcd.com]
still only 32-bit (Score:2)
GNU HURD still only runs in 32-bit mode. while you can run it on a 64-bit processor, you lose all the cool tricks you can do on 64-bit processors, especially when it comes to virtual machines.
Re:still only 32-bit (Score:4, Funny)
I've always felt that using 64 whole bits has been a waste of good address space. I'm glad HURD agrees. I'm actually contributing a patch to get them back down to 16-bit mode with the holy grail of finally returning to 8-bit. I have always felt that if you're running on a microkernel you should run with a micro address space too.
Got to ask (Score:2)
Congratulations (Score:3, Funny)
I was about to make an ironical comment but decided to send a positive message. I will do the same when they release the next version (supposing that I will still be alive at that time).
Great, all we need now is the right major crisis (Score:2)
Does it run ... (Score:2)