From: y...@columbia.edu (Yeechang Lee)
Subject: Hurd--ne plus ultra of vaporware?
Date: 1996/07/15
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Hmm, with the, ahem, impending release of GNU Hurd said to be Any Day
Now--can we award Hurd and the FSF with the title of longest-lived
vaporware ever?
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From: willi...@utkux.utcc.utk.edu (Myles Williams)
Subject: Re: Hurd--ne plus ultra of vaporware?
Date: 1996/07/15
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In article < slrn4ulbbm.4bg.y...@simile.cc.columbia.edu> y...@columbia.edu
(Yeechang Lee) writes:
Hmm, with the, ahem, impending release of GNU Hurd said to be Any Day
Now--can we award Hurd and the FSF with the title of longest-lived
vaporware ever?
You just can't please some people.
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From: torva...@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: Hurd--ne plus ultra of vaporware?
Date: 1996/07/16
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In article < m3ivbpp393....@linux.nowhere.org>,
Myles Williams < willi...@utkux.utcc.utk.edu> wrote:
>In article < slrn4ulbbm.4bg.y...@simile.cc.columbia.edu> y...@columbia.edu
(Yeechang Lee) writes:
> Hmm, with the, ahem, impending release of GNU Hurd said to be Any Day
> Now--can we award Hurd and the FSF with the title of longest-lived
> vaporware ever?
>
>You just can't please some people.
Hey! We could also ask some well-known rock-group for one of their
lyrics, and use that as the theme song for the Hurd release. And then
we could ask shops to stay open longer to sell the Hurd! Whaddaya think?
Don't say it has been delayed, just shout so loudly about all the new
features that nobody cares about the delay?
[ mumble mumble ]
What do you mean "been done already"?
[ mumble mumble ]
Drat!
Linus
From: m...@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I. Bushnell, p/BSG)
Subject: Re: Hurd--ne plus ultra of vaporware?
Date: 1996/07/17
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In article <4sg6tp$...@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI> torva...@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI
(Linus Torvalds) writes:
Hey! We could also ask some well-known rock-group for one of their
lyrics, and use that as the theme song for the Hurd release. And then
we could ask shops to stay open longer to sell the Hurd! Whaddaya think?
Don't say it has been delayed, just shout so loudly about all the new
features that nobody cares about the delay?
Perhaps we could get Morrisey to sing the song. He's very good
looking. Much better looking than that Mick Jagger fellow.
Or something delicate, like Bach's French Suite in G. That would be
fun.
In any case, here's the state of the release:
o Everything but nine packages has been compiled native.
o The random crash bug I alluded to is fixed.
o We have to build a floppy image for part of the installation instructions.
That's it. I bet you nobody in Redmond has ever made a statement like
that...
Michael