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A lot has happened with respect to the Hurd since our Childhurds and GNU/Hurd Substitutes post. As long as two years ago some of you have been asking for a progress update and although there have been rumours on a new blog post for over a year, we were kind of waiting for the rumoured x86_64 support.

We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.27.

Mes 0.26.2 is a bug-fix release.

We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.26.1.

We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.26.

Mes 0.25.1 is a bug-fix release.

We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.25!

We are delighted and somewhat relieved to announce that the third reduction of the Guix bootstrap binaries has now been merged in the main branch of Guix! If you run guix pull today, you get a package graph of more than 22,000 nodes rooted in a 357-byte program—something that had never been achieved, to our knowledge, since the birth of Unix.

We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.24.2, representing 25 commits over nine months by four people.

We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.24.1, representing 23 commits over five months by four people.

We are thrilled to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.24, representing 222 commits over one year by four people.

We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.23.1, representing 22 commits over one year by four people.

We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.23, representing 125 commits over one year by four people.

Last Monday I sent an update essentially saying $Subject:

A lot has happened since our Hello Hurd post beginning of April. No, not nearly as much as we joked on April 1st , but more than enough to share and be proud of.

We are delighted to announce that the second reduction by 50% of the Guix bootstrap binaries has now been officially released!

Below is the recipe of how I hacked to boot into a GNU Guix root on a Pinebook Pro, using the default kernel provided with the Debian image.

We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.22, representing 57 commits over 8 weeks.

We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.21, representing 54 commits over 10 weeks.

We are delighted to announce that the first reduction by 50% of the Guix bootstrap binaries has now been officially released!

We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.20, representing 147 commits over 38 weeks.

We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.19, representing 100 commits over 10 weeks.

We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.18, representing 83 commits over 8 weeks.

Finally, my website has been Haunted!

Guix---like other GNU/Linux distributions---is traditionally bootstrapped from a set of bootstrap binaries: Bourne shell, command-line tools provided by GNU Coreutils, Awk, Findutils, sed, and grep and Guile, GCC, Binutils, and the GNU C Library. Usually, these bootstrap binaries are "taken for granted."

We are delighted to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.17, representing 64 commits over 6 weeks.

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