> 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
Please be specific, GNU Mach and the Hurd in the GNU snapshots was
patched.
- Implementation of fastmath, fixes to pthread linking, and various
other fixes to make much more programs compile and/or run properly
Should be fixed in the GNU snapshots.
- Some (small) performance improvements
Like?
- 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...
There are several things missing from upstream as well, things that
are far more important than the list you listed. For example, >2GiB.
If this is all that has changed, then I really see no reason in
updating the snapshots.
