GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 (gnu.org)
54 points by plaguna 3 days ago
jnpnj an hour ago
It seems Samuel Thibault is still there, sweet.
ps: some slides from earlier this year https://fosdem.org/2026/events/attachments/7FZXHF-updates_on...
full vid here https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnu...
inigyou 41 minutes ago
Cool to finally see some small silly tech stuff here that isn't trying to make money.
bofadeez 10 minutes ago
Should have just used Fable instead
csb6 42 minutes ago
Does anyone more familiar with Hurd know how they addressed performance issues encountered by other Mach-based kernels? I remember reading that one of Mach's bottlenecks was validating that each IPC message had proper permissions/access when sending them between processes due to the large number and frequency of messages.
floxy 12 minutes ago
Is that a bottleneck anymore? Maybe something that was appreciable in 1994 isn't a big performance hit in 2026?
sirsinsalot an hour ago
I hope Hurd has its day. Maybe in 100 years or something.
this_user 36 minutes ago
Instead of rewriting Bun, maybe Anthropic should have thrown some tokens at finishing Hurd.
officeplant 9 minutes ago
We'd have to name it Turd then.
achyudh 2 minutes ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1508/
EarlKing 40 minutes ago
Fun fact: Duke Nukem Forever shipped before GNU Hurd.
lynx97 an hour ago
Hurd will have its day once Linux makes it on the desktop :-)
adrian_b 27 minutes ago
While I upvoted this, as being true for the general population, for me Linux has made it on the desktop (and laptop) much more than 2 decades ago, around 2003, when the remaining problems that had forced me to use dual-booting with Windows had been solved (i.e. when it became possible in Linux to play movies, read DVDs and use TV tuners). When that happened, I wiped out Windows from my computers.
If you have a pro to help you, already for a long time Linux has been fine on the desktop for anyone. My parents, over 80 years old, have used Linux on their PCs for many years, and they did not even know what "Linux" is. That was possible because I installed and configured for them the operating system and all the applications they needed for reading and writing documents, Internet browsing, e-mail, music listening and movie watching etc.
Windows is easy only because it comes preinstalled. I have installed Windows at work on many kinds of computers and during installation I have encountered much more problems impossible to solve for a non-expert than when installing Linux.
pjmlp an hour ago
Linux has made it to the desktop, packaged inside VMs served by Apple, Microsoft and Google.
NoImmatureAdHom an hour ago
metalliqaz an hour ago
veqq an hour ago
Linux hit 10% desktop usage recently
pjmlp 19 minutes ago
shevy-java an hour ago
First there will be the Desktop Linux of the year breakthrough. Evil folks say it will coincide with the end of the world via a total global catastrophy but these people don't understand beauty - such as TempleOS, the most perfect OS of all times.
isityettime an hour ago
> I plan to build bootable images and boot the kernel on Apple M1
GuixSD with GNU Hurd would be a really fun way to repurpose an old MBP.
shevy-java an hour ago
Next year will be the year of GNU Hurd, as well as The Desktop Linux Year and people really using HaikuOS on real hardware for years. You read it here first!
p0w3n3d 2 hours ago
Wow.