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@janneke@todon.nl
2026-02-02 07:01:36

Great talk by @… of #GNU #Hurd fame, in a packed room, selling the the Hurd really well (in my not entirely unbiased opinion, of course) and starting with
It'…

A slide on OS support (cont'd)

* Translator records in /dev and /servers
* Used to be a Hurd-specific ext2 extensions
* Now using xattrs by default
* Can now cross-install completely from Linux

* FS JBD2 journaling support (Milos Nikic)
* In progress

* Console xkb keyboard layout (Etienne Brateau)
A slide on Current state
* Rather stable
* Have not reinstalled boxes for a decade
  * Debian buildds keep building packages
* ~75% of Debian archive builds out of tree
* XFCE, gnome, KDE, ...
* Support merged upstream
* gcc, glibc, llvm, rust, ...
* Debian distribution
* Guix/Hurd released!
Slide on Dissemination

* News coverage
* Quarter of the Hurd (QotH) (Joshua Branson) 
* Guix/hurd (Manolis Ragkousis, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen, Yelninei) 
  * https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2024/hurd-on-thinkpad/
* Alpine (Sergey Bugaev) | z | |
 Slide: So, what do we have?

* x86_64 SMP
* SATA/USB disk/cd, all in userland
* netwokr driver & TCP/IP all in userland
* kernel only manages tasks, memory, IPC
* go, rust, ocaml, ghc, some java...
* Debian (~75% packages)
* Guix
* som Arch, some Alpine
* An the usual Hurd stuff: user-controlled translators, fine grain access control, sub-hurds.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-07 13:05:33

National Park Service drops free admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday (David Klepper/Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/national-pa
memeorandum.com/251207/p10#a25