The latest report on Woody includes plans to make preview release CD's in the next few weeks, a freeze in June, hopes for completed ports of hurd-i386, MIPS, HPPA, and IA64, and a possible October release.

The latest report on Woody includes plans to make preview release CD's in the next few weeks, a freeze in June, hopes for completed ports of hurd-i386, MIPS, HPPA, and IA64, and a possible October release.

"RC1 is the final form for Progeny Debian's first edition," explains Ian Murdock, president and CEO of Progeny Linux Systems and the founder of the Debian project. "We expect any changes after RC1 to be either bug-fixes or cosmetic improvements."

"RC1 is the final form for Progeny Debian's first edition," explains Ian Murdock, president and CEO of Progeny Linux Systems and the founder of the Debian project. "We expect any changes after RC1 to be either bug-fixes or cosmetic improvements."

The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. The Hurd is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux).