{"id":316236,"date":"2026-03-01T11:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/316236\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T11:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:58:08","slug":"gnu-hurd-on-guix-is-ready-with-64-bit-support-smp-multi-processor-support-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/316236\/","title":{"rendered":"GNU Hurd On Guix Is Ready With 64-bit Support, SMP Multi-Processor Support &#8220;Soon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GNU\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gnu.webp.webp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><br \/>\nAfter hearing last month that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/GNU-Hurd-In-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GNU Hurd is &#8220;almost there&#8221; with x86_64 support<\/a>, it was exciting to kickoff today by seeing a developer headline &#8220;The 64-bit Hurd is Here!&#8221; GNU Hurd 64-bit support is now said to be ready but SMP support for multiple processor cores and the like remain still in development.<\/p>\n<p>The GNU Guix developer blog announced the headline today of 64-bit support. The GNU Guix distribution with Hurd rather than the Linux kernel is now available in an x86_64 flavor for those wanting to try it out. The post also outlines other progress made to GNU Hurd with the Guix distribution over the past year and a half.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>There have been many fixes throughout for GNU Guix\/Hurd, including to the installer. 64-bit Hurd is booting successfully and there is now an installer option for Hurd on x86_64.&#13;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image.webp\" alt=\"GNU Guix Hurd 64-bit installer option\"\/><\/p>\n<p>While some may be excited over GNU Guix\/Hurd, there is still a very limited subset of packages successfully building:<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8220;In Guix only about 1.7% (32-bit) and 0.9% (64-bit) of packages are available for the Hurd. These percentages fluctuate a bit but continue to grow (both grew with a couple tenth percent point during the preparation of this blog post), and as always, might grow faster with your help.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>So while Guix GNU\/Hurd has an exciting future, please be aware that it lacks many packages and services, including Xorg.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/guix.gnu.org\/blog\/2026\/the-64-bit-hurd\/\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GNU Guix blog post<\/a> concludes talking about Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) Support that &#8220;so most probably we&#8217;ll have 64-bit multiprocessing real soon now! It seems however, that we will need new bootstrap binaries for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After hearing last month that GNU Hurd is &#8220;almost there&#8221; with x86_64 support, it was exciting to kickoff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[78437,85,46,78436,78434,78433,78440,78438,78435,78439,78432,78443,125,78441,78442],"class_list":{"0":"post-316236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-linux-benchmarking","12":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","13":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","14":"tag-linux-how-to","15":"tag-linux-performance","16":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","17":"tag-open-source-graphics","18":"tag-phoronix","19":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","22":"tag-ubuntu-hardware"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}