Philip Charles has announced [1] the availability of the K7 series of Debian GNU/Hurd CDs. He says: "The main feature of the K7 set is its quality. I would say it is the best set to date. IMHO, this set could be used to promote GNU".
This version features XFree86-4.3 for the first time, resulting in greatly improved X11 support. It is also the first version featuring the hurd package itself built against a recent glibc (current Debian unstable). You can download the mini-ISO here [2], the other ISOs are here [3]. In order to install Debian GNU/Hurd, read the installation instructions [4] from the Debian website. The K7 Readme [5] offers more general information about the release.
From: Philip Charles [email blocked]
To: debian-hurd mailing list [email blocked]
Subject: K7 images built and being uploaded.
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:17:31 +1200 (NZST)
The first four CD iso images are being uploaded to ftp.gnuab.org. The
upload will be complete in about three days. I have a 15 KB/sec
connection. The first image is 25-30% uploaded.
We are just into the eighth CD, but all the *hurd-i386.deb's are on the
first two CDs so only the first four CDs have been released.
Grub has been upgraded to grub_0.94. A (very) mini grub iso image is
included along with the usual floppy image.
The main feature of the K7 set is its quality. I would say it is the best
set to date. IMHO, this set could be used to promote GNU.
I have just completed a successful installation using the 4.4 GB DVD.
The DVD is too big for me to upload (44% of my data allocation, 80-90
hours to upload), so let us have some discussion about how it can be
distributed and used.
Phil.
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