| ▲ | GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2(gnu.org) |
| 48 points by plaguna 3 days ago | 24 comments |
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| ▲ | jnpnj an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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... |
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| ▲ | inigyou 31 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Cool to finally see some small silly tech stuff here that isn't trying to make money. |
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| ▲ | csb6 32 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | floxy 2 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Is that a bottleneck anymore? Maybe something that was appreciable in 1994 isn't a big performance hit in 2026? |
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| ▲ | sirsinsalot an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I hope Hurd has its day. Maybe in 100 years or something. |
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| ▲ | this_user 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Instead of rewriting Bun, maybe Anthropic should have thrown some tokens at finishing Hurd. | |
| ▲ | EarlKing 30 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Fun fact: Duke Nukem Forever shipped before GNU Hurd. | |
| ▲ | lynx97 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Hurd will have its day once Linux makes it on the desktop :-) | | |
| ▲ | adrian_b 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | 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 | parent | prev | next [-] | | Linux has made it to the desktop, packaged inside VMs served by Apple, Microsoft and Google. | | |
| ▲ | NoImmatureAdHom 44 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | It just...has made it. Plenty of power users just use it as their primary OS. I think official figures under-estimate it because many people daily-driving will spoof user agents of other OSes. And there's Android. | | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 16 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Ah, Android, with a userspace based on Java, Kotlin, C and C++ standard libraries, Android native APIs, without anything related to GNU/Linux, unless it is a rooted device, or one gets to package a full Linux userspace as an APK, which isn't fully compatible due to security enforcement mechanisms. I would look into those statistics regarding desktop world wide adoption, distribution per OS. | | |
| ▲ | jhbadger 10 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Anyone who wants it can have Termux which gives you a full Linux experience under Android with GNU tools if you want it, though. | | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 7 minutes ago | parent [-] | | No it does not. It gives a Linux experience within the security sandbox from Android, which is why there are limitations when using it on regular devices, via PlayStore. Also it requires working around the NDK limitations on available POSIX APIs. |
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| ▲ | metalliqaz 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | That's not really what everyone means. However the recent success of gaming-related distros such as SteamOS and Bazzite seem to be succeeding where Usability-focused distros such as Mint, Pop!, and Zorin couldn't get deep traction | | |
| ▲ | inigyou 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | This should be a lesson about providing a product versus providing a technology. Ubuntu is "like Windows but not" which is mostly relevant to people boycotting Windows. Steam Deck is "a gamebox" which people who already like games might want to buy. Bazzite is "a thing that turns your computer into a game box." | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 19 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | No, but that is what they will ever get from OEMs selling PCs at computer stores used by normies. Also lets not forget those distros play Windows games, because hardly any studio bothers with native Linux games. | | |
| ▲ | nemomarx 2 minutes ago | parent [-] | | They play both, which is much better for adoption anyway? And it's contributed substantial improvements back to wine and other projects. |
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| ▲ | veqq 39 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Linux hit 10% desktop usage recently | | |
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| ▲ | shevy-java 36 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | isityettime 44 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > 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. |
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| ▲ | shevy-java 37 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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! |
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| ▲ | p0w3n3d an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Wow. |
