[ Thanks to Dan Lark
for this link. ]
“The release of a production version of the free GNU operating
system (OS) has been delayed beyond the end of the year, as the
current development version of the system does not support large
disk partitions and high speed serial I/O (input-output), according
to Richard Stallman, president of the Boston-based Free Software
Foundation (FSF).“‘I would say that when two features that are that essential are
still missing, we are not at version 1.0 of the system yet,’
Stallman told IDG News Service in an interview this week in
Bangalore. Stallman was however noncommittal on a new release
date.“In an interview in March, Stallman said that the production
version of the GNU OS was likely to be ready by the end of this
year…”