Hi, On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 02:55:59PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote:
> 2. Was the GNU System release v0.2 in 1997 the last release or have > there been any others since? There have been two snapshots created by Alfred, but no official release. > 3. (assuming the answer to #2 is no) The g-s-d archive doesn't go back > to 1997. Does anyone know what happened in 1997 that derailed the > release schedule and caused the 10 year gap since the last release? Besically, nobody cared. There is Debian GNU/Hurd, and there is a lot of GNU software, but nobody was interested in creating official releases of the GNU system as a whole. Then Alfred came along, initiating a new GNU packaging effort a few years ago -- resulting in this mailing list, a build system, and some snapshots of GNU using this build system. -antrik-
