I'm actually impressed

Posted Aug 14, 2025 8:09 UTC (Thu) by chris_se (subscriber, #99706)
Parent article: Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 released

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...