On Wed, 2025-12-10 at 22:19 +0800, radhitya via Dng wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 02:50:41AM +0000, Peter Duffy wrote:
> is hurd still a thing? last time i heard it, the project progress
> was slow, almost stopped.
>
> besides that, i always have a question about hurd: what the
> advantages
> of it?
> > Every now and then, I check up on the development of the GNU Hurd
> > kernel, just to see how it's going. I've just noticed that there's
> > an
> > experimental version of debian using the Hurd kernel. I wondered if
> > there had been any thoughts of getting devuan to work with the
> > Hurd. It
> > might not be too difficult, and would be interesting to attempt. 
> >
> > (At the moment, I'm not clear whether debian/hurd uses systemd: I
> > assume that it must do.  I guess the thing is to try it out in a
> > VM:
> > I'll do so and report back.)
> >
> > https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/ 
> > _______________________________________________

I also thought that hurd development had more or less stopped, and I
was quite surprised to see that there was a version of debian which
used it. I'm also not sure what the advantages are - or supposed to
be. Hopefully if I can get debian/hurd running, and play with it for a
while, I might understand a bit more.