I am pleased to announce version 0.0 of the GNU Hurd, available via anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu [18.159.0.42] in the file /pub/gnu/hurd-0.0.tar.gz (about 1.2 MB compressed). This file contains complete source code for the following: Hurd servers: auth, crash, devio, devport, exec, ext2fs, fifo, fwd, ifsock, init, magic, new-fifo, nfs, null, pfinet, pflocal, proc, symlink, term, ufs. Hurd libraries: diskfs, fshelp, ihash, iohelp, netfs, pager, pipe, ports, ps, shouldbeinlibc, store, threads, trivfs. Hurd utilities and other programs: boot, shd, ps, settrans, showtrans, sync, su, mount, fsysopts, storeinfo, login, w, uptime, hurdids, loginpr, sush, vmstat, portinfo, devprobe, reboot, halt, fsck, fsck.ufs, mkfs.ufs, clri.ufs, stati.ufs, getty, rc. ------ In addition, we have prepared a binary distribution of a complete version 0.0 GNU system corresponding to this Hurd release. This release runs only on PC-AT compatible systems with i[345]86 processors. 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 uses the `UK22' version of the Mach kernel, as distributed by the University of Utah. It is too difficult to prepare a detailed list of supported devices at this point. Common disk controllers and ethernet cards are generally supported. This release does not contain the X Window System. This release may be fetched by anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu [18.159.42] in the directory /pub/gnu/gnu-0.0/. In that directory, you should find the following files: README SOURCES INSTALL-binary grub-boot.image (about 1.4 MB, not compressed) gnu-0.0.tar.gz (about 56.9 MB compressed) gnu-0.0-stripped.tar.gz (about 26.2 MB compressed) SOURCES contains a complete list describing the sources for the binaries found in the image. INSTALL-binary contains complete installation instructions for this release. (The files README, SOURCES, and INSTALL-binary are also found in the root directory of the gnu-0.0 release.) gnu-0.0.tar.gz holds the image of the complete system. It unpacks into a directory that requires approximately 233 MB of disk space. gnu-0.0-stripped.tar.gz holds the same contents as gnu-0.0, except that executable programs have been stripped to save space, and the libraries have had debugging symbols stripped to save space and speed linking. It unpacks into a directory that requires about 85.5 MB of disk space. We recommend using the unstripped image, or you will be unable to debug anything. Surely there are bugs. So fetch the unstripped image, at least to have around. grub-boot.image is an image of a 3.5" floppy disk that you will need in order to complete part of the installation instructions. The following free software packages are found in this release: autoconf, automake, bash, bc, binutils, bison, cpio, cvs, diffutils, doschk, e2fsprogs, ed, emacs, fileutils, findutils, flex, from, gawk, gcal, gcc, gdb, gdbm, gettext, glibc, gmp, gperf, grep, grub, gzip, hello, hurd, indent, inetutils, less, mach, make, m4, miscfiles, ncurses, nethack, nvi, patch, ptx, rcs, readline, recode, sed, serverboot, sharutils, shellutils, tar, termcap, termutils, texinfo, textutils, time, wdiff. ------ Here are md5sum checksums for the files mentioned in this message: b5f888bab3eb193fe97a00a141324c9d INSTALL-binary 345dcd826747d7b11fc78f4db162d75b README 1a5744bb4ed3448045fa6d24153d65fe SOURCES f7b1bc428bc4ee29977a5b28f5762092 gnu-0.0-stripped.tar.gz 24554c58e5c89f295176e17d21dbae8e gnu-0.0.tar.gz 8338c619d860b71bc4128c9c0fd39d63 grub-boot.image 1fd18ccc4c81d051b83d28b13dc07ee2 hurd-0.0.tar.gz ----- Br. Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG