GNU Hurd development blog: 2026-04-01-gentoo gnu hurd
Gentoo GNU/Hurd released!
Details.
“
The year is 2026 and Gentoo is perhaps ready for an advanced kernel:
the GNU Hurd.
Scripts to build a working image that can be booted in QEMU can be
found at https://codeberg.org/thesamesam/gentoo-hurd
(will move that to Gentoo infra).
”
Read the announcement email.
The GNU Hurd is the GNU project’s replacement for the Unix kernel. It is a
collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file
systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are
implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux). More
detailed.
GNU Mach is the microkernel upon which a GNU Hurd system is based. It
provides an Inter Process Communication (IPC) mechanism that the Hurd uses to
define interfaces for implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the
services a traditional operating system kernel provides. More
detailed.
Source: Planet GNU