Re: question about historical GNU System releases

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   >    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.