* hurd/running/alpine.mdwn: new file. * Hurd/HurdDevelopers.mdwn: link to alpine wiki page. * hurd/running/distrib.mdwn: link to alpine wiki page. --- Hurd/HurdDevelopers.mdwn | 2 +- hurd/running/alpine.mdwn | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ hurd/running/distrib.mdwn | 3 ++- 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 hurd/running/alpine.mdwn
diff --git a/Hurd/HurdDevelopers.mdwn b/Hurd/HurdDevelopers.mdwn index 1524b646..34bb5741 100644 --- a/Hurd/HurdDevelopers.mdwn +++ b/Hurd/HurdDevelopers.mdwn @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ The Hurd has very few people working on it. This is a list of people who are la * Samuel Thibault - Maintainer * Joshua Branson - Documentation (jab or gnucode on irc) * Etienne Brateau - xkb keyboard layout -* Sergey Bugaev - security fixes, 64 bit and AArch64 port, and Alpine/Hurd +* Sergey Bugaev - security fixes, 64 bit and AArch64 port, and [[Alpine/Hurd|hurd/running/alpine]] * Diego Nieto Cid - fixed compilation warnings * Flávio Cruz - Mach IPC improvements * Luca Dariz - 64 bit port and make check diff --git a/hurd/running/alpine.mdwn b/hurd/running/alpine.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7cbe66f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/running/alpine.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +In early 2024, Sergey Bugaev hacked together a Hurd OS running via +Alpine; he just replaced musl and Linux with glibc and the Hurd. His +goal was to boot the Hurd with busybox and OpenRC (one can install +bash, if one wishes). You can [read the annoucement +email](https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-hurd/2024-01/msg00180.html). The +source code is [here](https://github.com/bugaevc/aports/). + +He doesn't want to call it Alpine Hurd, because upstream Alpine is not +the biggest fan of GNU. It has not seen a ton of activity lately, but +anyone is free to revive it. + + diff --git a/hurd/running/distrib.mdwn b/hurd/running/distrib.mdwn index 5d12f8ec..47a41ea3 100644 --- a/hurd/running/distrib.mdwn +++ b/hurd/running/distrib.mdwn @@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ There are several GNU distributions that are built on the Hurd. If you develop a * [[Debian]] * [[Guix]] -###GNU/Hurd distributions in early stages of development: +###GNU/Hurd distributions in early stages of development: +* [[Alpine]] * [[Arch|arch_hurd]] (features a LiveCD) * [[Nix]] -- 2.53.0
