>From a tip given somewhere on this list, I typed: # apt-get dist-upgrade -s
And lo and behold came the following output: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... 6 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Inst diff [shellutils on hurd] Conf diff Inst less [shellutils on hurd] Inst sharutils [shellutils on hurd] Inst libcdparanoia0 [shellutils on hurd] Inst cdparanoia [shellutils on hurd] Inst dh-make [shellutils on hurd] Conf less Conf sharutils Conf libcdparanoia0 Conf cdparanoia Conf dh-make What does the "shellutils on hurd" mean? Is this the famed Hurd OS making its long overdue entrance?