{"id":444440,"date":"2026-02-02T10:05:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/444440\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T10:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:05:23","slug":"gnu-hurd-is-almost-there-with-x86_64-smp-75-of-debian-packages-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/444440\/","title":{"rendered":"GNU Hurd Is &#8220;Almost There&#8221; With x86_64, SMP &#038; ~75% Of Debian Packages Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GNU\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gnu.webp.webp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><br \/>\nSamuel Thibault offered up a status update on the current state of GNU\/Hurd from a presentation in Brussels at FOSDEM 2026. Thibault has previously shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/search\/Thibault\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">updates on GNU Hurd<\/a> from the annual FOSDEM event while this year&#8217;s was a bit more optimistic thanks to recent driver progress and more software now successfully building for Hurd.<\/p>\n<p>GNU\/Hurd continues to lag behind the Linux kernel and other modern platforms for hardware driver support. But driver support for Hurd has been improving thanks to NetBSD&#8217;s rump layer.&#13;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image.webp\" alt=\"GNU\/Hurd 2026 status report\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hurd for years has also lacked SMP support for modern multi-core systems but that too has been improving in recent times. Similarly, Hurd for the longest time was predominantly x86 32-bit only but the x86_64 port is now essentially complete and there is even eyes toward AArch64 support.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770026722_524_image.webp\" alt=\"GNU\/Hurd 64-bit support\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Debian GNU\/Hurd has been an unofficial Debian distribution and alternative to using the Linux kernel while Guix\/Hurd and Alpine\/Hurd distributions have also come about too for more Hurd exposure and testing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770026722_978_image.webp\" alt=\"GNU\/Hurd SMP support\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Samuel shared that around 75% of the Debian archive is currently building for the GNU\/Hurd distribution including desktop environments and more.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770026723_62_image.webp\" alt=\"GNU\/Hurd 2026 status in 2026\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The FOSDEM 2026 presentation on GNU\/Hurd concluded with a proclamation that &#8220;GNU\/Hurd is almost there&#8221; with the Debian\/Guix\/Arch\/Alpine distributions but that the developers can always use extra help with community contributions.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770026723_101_image.webp\" alt=\"GNU\/Hurd 2026 state\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Those curious about GNU\/Hurd in 2026 can find the presentation by Samuel Thibault at <a href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2026\/schedule\/event\/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnuhurd_progress_rump_drivers_64bit_smp_software_bootstrapping\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FOSDEM.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samuel Thibault offered up a status update on the current state of GNU\/Hurd from a presentation in Brussels&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7278,7277,7275,7274,7281,7279,7276,7280,7273,7284,74,7282,7283],"class_list":{"0":"post-444440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-linux-benchmarking","10":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","11":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","12":"tag-linux-how-to","13":"tag-linux-performance","14":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","15":"tag-open-source-graphics","16":"tag-phoronix","17":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","20":"tag-ubuntu-hardware"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}