LWN: Comments on "Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 released"

I'm actually impressed

kreijack — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 21:44:17 +0000

> (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...

I'm actually impressed

chris_se — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 08:09:36 +0000

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!

Did GNU finally release an OS?

jmalcolm — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 20:46:26 +0000

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.

Congrats

z3ntu — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:58:50 +0000

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/