I am pleased to announce version 0.2 of the complete Hurd based GNU system. This release runs only on PC-AT compatible systems with i[3456]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 GNUmach distribution of the Mach kernel, version 1.1.3. Popular PC devices are generally supported. This release does not contain the X Window System. This release may be fetched from the directory ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/gnu-0.2. (prep.ai.mit.edu is 18.159.42, for the nameserver-impaired). In that directory, you should find the following files: README SOURCES INSTALL-binary grub-boot.image (about 1.5 MB, not compressed) gnu-0.2.tar.gz (about 73 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-0.2 release.) gnu-0.2.tar.gz holds the image of the complete system. It unpacks into a directory that requires approximately 285 MB of disk space. 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 included in this release: autoconf automake bash bc binutils bison cpio cvs diffutils doschk e2fsprogs ed emacs emacs lisp manual fileutils findutils flex from g77 gawk gcal gcc gdb gettext glibc gmp gnuchess gnumach gnugo grep grub gzip hello hurd indent inetutils less libg++ lynx m4 make miscfiles ncurses nethack nvi patch perl ptx readline rcs recode sed sendmail sh-utils sharutils tar termutils texinfo textutils time wdiff -- Here are md5sum checksums for the files mentioned in this message: 3749b016ab581e007b90d17b9092e134 INSTALL-binary 1f800c326ba4c3a0b3f3a3463597317b README 40d1e1a38dd86f28fe2718081ac865cb SOURCES f29c1a03c1667a8019b66f6effa89d39 gnu-0.2.tar.gz 8ad3c7254802a16068a956e836266212 grub-boot.image