GNU Hurd Hardware Support Remains In Very Rough Shape For 2018

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Phoronix: GNU Hurd Hardware Support Remains In Very Rough Shape For 2018

Yesterday at FOSDEM 2018 Hurd developer Samuel Thibault talked about the work done on this GNU kernel for a PCI arbiter to allow different user-land drivers to access PCI devices concurrently. During this PCI arbiter talk he also went over the current state of the hardware support and recent achievements for GNU Hurd...

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[EricBlair]

Not directed at Michael but ... Why would anybody care about GNU Hurd?

[EthraZa]

Everytime I read it's name, it goes like:
GNU Hurt

[WolfpackN64]

Not directed at Michael but ... Why would anybody care about GNU Hurd?

Why not? A FOSS microkernel developed by the FSF. It has a ton of problems, but at the very least it's interesting.

[onicsis]

Not directed at Michael but ... Why would anybody care about GNU Hurd?

In 2018 GNU Hurd should be a viable alternative to [GNU] Linux.

[EricBlair]

WolfpackN64 it could be interesting if it had any chance of being more than a research project.

onicsis I'd be interested to hear how you define viable :-)

[EricBlair]

Does it do x64 yet?

[bachchain]

How does any project stay in pre-alpha for 28 years

[onicsis]

onicsis I'd be interested to hear how you define viable :-)

Well, Linux represent a viable way to get the job done. Or at least many jobs. First of all to boot on many hardware without to many issues. Second to run a more than decent WMs+basic applications, usable by average users. This when targeting desktops. + Specialised categories of software.

[onicsis]

How does any project stay in pre-alpha for 28 years

Unfortunately there weren't to many attempts to fork it.