I'm actually impressed

Posted Aug 16, 2025 21:44 UTC (Sat) by kreijack (guest, #43513)
In reply to: I'm actually impressed by chris_se
Parent article: Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 released

> (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...