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- jnpnjIt seems Samuel Thibault is still there, sweet.ps: some slides from earlier this year https://fosdem.org/2026/events/attachments/7FZXHF-updates_on...full vid here https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnu...
- inigyouCool to finally see some small silly tech stuff here that isn't trying to make money.
- MisterTea> 9pfs for the HurdFrom the wiki:> 9P is perhaps not as robust or as fault tolerant as NFSHow is it not robust? What metric did they use? Fault tolerance is not explained here so I don't know what they mean by this. You can use aan(8) on 9front which runs on each side of the connection and holds it open if the network breaks, then resume on reconnect.
- csb6Does anyone more familiar with Hurd know how they addressed performance issues encountered by other Mach-based kernels? I remember reading that one of Mach's bottlenecks was validating that each IPC message had proper permissions/access when sending them between processes due to the large number and frequency of messages.
- isityettime> I plan to build bootable images and boot the kernel on Apple M1GuixSD with GNU Hurd would be a really fun way to repurpose an old MBP.
- sirsinsalotI hope Hurd has its day. Maybe in 100 years or something.
- shaggie76I can't help but feel disappointed that after 35 years the first thing they're talking about is an SVG logo. I mean, there's a certain novelty that it was made on a laptop running Hurd itself, but still I was left with a sense that progress is meandering and whimsical.I remember being excited by Hurd's ambitions after studying Tanenbaum's OS book in university and drinking the microkernel kool-aid; now I'm too old and jaded to believe it'll be a viable alternative.
- pshirshovTales from the crypt.
- apiSomeone should do the blasphemous thing and have Opus 5 finish HURD.Actually in all seriousness reviving dead interesting FOSS projects is one use for AI coding I've thought about.
- shevy-javaNext year will be the year of GNU Hurd, as well as The Desktop Linux Year and people really using HaikuOS on real hardware for years. You read it here first!
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- p0w3n3dWow.