On 5 July 2026 19:02:43 BST, Joshua Branson <[email protected]> wrote: >* hurd/running/alpine.mdwn: new file. >* Hurd/HurdDevelopers.mdwn: link to alpine wiki page. >* hurd/running/distrib.mdwn: link to alpine wiki page. Acked-by: Bradley Morgan <[email protected]> >--- > 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]] * Bradley Morgan - aarch64 porting ? > * 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.
Hurdpine? :) >+ >+ >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]] * [[Gentoo]] (could belong in either section) >-###GNU/Hurd distributions in early stages of development: >+###GNU/Hurd distributions in early stages of development: > >+* [[Alpine]] > * [[Arch|arch_hurd]] (features a LiveCD) > * [[Nix]] > > Thanks!
