Hi all, As you may have seen by now, we've announced our port of Gentoo to the Hurd [0][1]. The more serious announcement can be found on the gentoo-dev mailing list [1]. Of course, despite the date, the port is serious and I plan to continue working on it :)
Quoting myself from [1]: > The year is 2026 and Gentoo is perhaps ready for an advanced kernel: > the GNU Hurd. > > crossdev support came first and then I couldn't help myself with going > further :) > > All of this has been committed over the last ~2.5 weeks but bringing > it here as both a formal announcement and as a promise to (eventually) > post the new profiles here, but didn't want to do that too early. > > 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). > > There's plenty to do yet, see TODO in that repo for a start, but it's > gone further than I thought it would in the beginning. > > The project has been a good outlet to relax and I hope others will > find some joy in it too. There's no pressure to move quickly and that's > part of the reward from working on this: "we get there when we get there". > > The Hurd has many interesting properties, and a surprising amount Just Works; > you can say many thing about the Hurd, but I defy you to say it's in any way > boring. > > Acknowledgements: > * dilfridge, csfore, nekobro, and navi: for the help, encouragement, > and contributions so far. > > * GNU Hurd community: for patiently answering questions. > > * Debian GNU/Hurd and Guix: for being a source of work to borrow! > > * those who led or contributed to prior efforts to port Gentoo to the Hurd: > * https://web.archive.org/web/20100109161805/http://www.mundurat.net/ggh/ > * > https://web.archive.org/web/20060103233551/http://hurd.rustedhalo.net/about.php > * https://github.com/matijaskala/hurd > * https://github.com/trofi/gentoo-hurd > (https://trofi.github.io/posts/208-crossdev-and-gnu-hurd.html) > * https://github.com/alexxy/gentoo-hurd > > A new Gentoo project has been established > (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hurd), > with an IRC channel too (#gentoo-hurd). > > Enjoy, have fun with it, and be prepared for it to be a bit bumpy. Again, thank you for the welcome you've shown myself and contributors, and I hope that I'll become a familiar face around Hurd as well some Gentoo contributors and users. Onwards! cheers, sam [0] https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/04/01/gentoo-hurd.html [1] https://public-inbox.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/[email protected]/
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