Greetings Peter, greetings everyone.

Peter Duffy - 10.12.25, 17:59:07 CET:
> 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.

I follow debian-hurd mailing list and there is some activity going on.

Bug reports are being discussed like for example:

Bug#1009712: sv: fails to control the service on Hurd
https://bugs.debian.org/1009712

Yeah, about Runit on Hurd :) and it was actually Lorenzo, the Runit
package maintainer opening that bug report himself.

Samuel Thibault is quite active.

I think major issue is: Only a few people work on it. I don't know for
sure about upstream, but I would be surprised if more than a few
developers work on it regularly.

I do also follow Genode Labs for Genode Operating System Framework and
SculptOS¹ distribution as well as Redox-OS².

I do hope that at one point one of those becomes feasible as a daily
driver as I indeed do believe that a micro kernel approach would be better
than the monolithic all-in-one Linux kernel. Especially regarding
stability. And I think the arguments that it cannot be fast enough are
mood these days.

I would be interested in an unbiased comparison of these approaches with
merits and pitfalls for everyone of it.


[1] https://genode.org/

[2] https://www.redox-os.org

Best,
--
Martin