GNU Hurd 0.6 released

It has been roughly a year and a half since the last release of the GNU Hurd operatingsystem, so it may be of interest to some readers that GNU Hurd 0.6 has beenreleased along withGNU Mach 1.5 (the microkernel that Hurdruns on) and GNU MIG 1.5 (the Mach Interface Generator, whichgenerates code to handle remote procedure calls). New features includeprocfs and random translators; cleanups and stylistic fixes, some of whichcame from static analysis; message dispatching improvements; integerhashing performance improvements; a split of the init server into astartup server and an init program based on System V init; and more. "GNU Hurd runs on 32-bit x86 machines. A version running on 64-bit x86(x86_64) machines is in progress. Volunteers interested in ports toother architectures are sought; please contact us (see below) if you'dlike to help.To compile the Hurd, you need a toolchain configured to target i?86-gnu;you cannot use a toolchain targeting GNU/Linux. Also note that youcannot run the Hurd "in isolation": you'll need to add further componentssuch as the GNU Mach microkernel and the GNU C Library (glibc), to turnit into a runnable system."