Hi, On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 07:54:17PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> What Alfred is claiming is that there would be not much difference > between the latest *snapshot* of GNU -- which he released at the > beginning of 2006 IIRC -- and a new snapshot made now. (IMHO > that's not true BTW; there were some pretty relevant improvements. > But well...) > > Could you point them out to me? Maybe we should make a new one in > that case. >From the top of my head: - Some important fixes (mostly to gnumach), at least one of them considerably improving stability - Some fixes for more or less annoying bugs in gnumach, glibc, hurd - Implementation of fastmath, fixes to pthread linking, and various other fixes to make much more programs compile and/or run properly - Some (small) performance improvements - Fixes to some drivers, and for machines with a lot of RAM - Some PCMCIA support I'm sure I forgot many more. And of course, not all of them are in upstream CVS yet, so it requires some patch-hunting... -antrik-
