I have just upgraded my old hurd installation by using the F2 main CD. I used the opportunity of having my laptop on a network to also donwload the latest versions of oskit and gnumach (haven't found oskit-mach yet). Crosscompiling gnumach worked nicely, though I haven't yet checked with the latest release. I've been playing happily with oskit for about 1 year now. It seems that there is a lot of interest in switching from gnumach to oskit-mach. The latest oskit release mentions that some of its kernels can only run on >586 CPUs (something about a timer internal to >586 that is required. Is there a watchdog on the 586 ?). Does that mean that oskit-mach and hence the hurd would require a 586 to run ? I would see this as a major limitation :(
Also, I just noticed on http://walfield.org/hurd/need_compile/needs_compile_math.html that octave does not seem to have been compiled for the hurd. As this is the software I use most often, I think I'll give it a try if it hasn't been done yet. Jean-Michel FRIEDT
