I feel closer to a stable release than ever before. We have everything needed to say it wasn't just slapped together to make a release. There's still work to finish, but it's all doable.
We have: Stack smashing protector on everything except the kernel and glibc libraries. ld -z relro, -z now on everything except the kernel. -fpie/fpic on everything but the kernel, for aslr. No text relocations. fortify_source on everthing except glibc libraries. gcc42+binutils-2.19+glibc-2.8. todo: No suid-root programs. Coherent documentation. I prefer to do hlfs-stable before the reboot changes, and make linux-2.6.25 kernel, with capabilities, a dependency for the host. Otherwise -stable is farther away, with no real benefit to the finished system. However, I am willing to postpone -stable for reboot(fewer host dependencies) and unprivileged-build-user changes, if this is what people want from hlfs-1.0. robert
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