Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 released

[Posted August 12, 2025 by jzb]

Debian's GNU/Hurd team has announced the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2025:

This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the stable Debian "Trixie" release (August 2025), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release. [...]

Debian GNU/Hurd is currently available for the i386 and amd64 architectures with about 72% of the Debian archive, and more to come!

See the FAQ and configuration guide for more on the GNU/Hurd port.

Congrats

Posted Aug 12, 2025 13:58 UTC (Tue) by z3ntu (subscriber, #117661) [Link]

Congrats on the release, good to see Hurd still chugging along!
In case anybody has too much time on their hands and likes Arch, Arch Hurd can really use volunteers to (re-)bootstrap the distro, which uses your favorite pacman package manager! https://archhurd.org/

Did GNU finally release an OS?

Posted Aug 12, 2025 20:46 UTC (Tue) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876) [Link]

Woah.

64 bit support, Rust, ACPI, SMP, and support for 72% of the Debain archive?

This is starting to look like an actual operating system. I am definitely going to have to check this out.

I'm actually impressed

Posted Aug 14, 2025 8:09 UTC (Thu) by chris_se (subscriber, #99706) [Link] (1 responses)

Last time I checked out Debian GNU/Hurd was ~ 7-8 years ago, and back then it seemed to me that development had slowed down quite a bit (notably lack of 64bit support after > 15 years of Linux supporting 64bit). I'm pleasantly surprised that my impression was apparently very wrong. I'll have to take a closer look in the near future.

Congrats on the release!

I'm actually impressed

Posted Aug 16, 2025 21:44 UTC (Sat) by kreijack (guest, #43513) [Link]

> (notably lack of 64bit support after > 15 years of Linux supporting 64bit)

Let me to be pedantic: alpha porting was done in mid of '90 [1]. So it is about 30 years that Linux is capable to run on a 64 bit machine. x86_64 is supported from ~2002 [2], so it is only 23 years.

Anyhow, it is a great results for Hurd.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux#Chronology
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/hist...