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GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" With x86_64, SMP & ~75% Of Debian Packages Building (www.phoronix.com)
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Samuel Thibault offered up a status update on the current state of GNU/Hurd from a presentation in Brussels at FOSDEM 2026. Thibault has previously shared updates on GNU Hurd from the annual FOSDEM event while this year's was a bit more optimistic thanks to recent driver progress and more software now successfully building for Hurd.

GNU/Hurd continues to lag behind the Linux kernel and other modern platforms for hardware driver support. But driver support for Hurd has been improving thanks to NetBSD's rump layer.

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[–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

When I last tried hurd (around 2014 iirc), it was "there" enough. I'm not sure what this other "there" others are on about, like it's a hard binary transition point to being usable, as if it might as well not be working at all. It's there enough to give it a go. Long time.

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