No kidding: Gentoo GNU/Hurd

Date:
Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:12:56 +0000

Description:
On April 1, the Gentoo Linux project published a blog post
announcing that it was switching to GNU Hurd as its primary
kernel as an April Fool's joke. While that is not true, the project
has followed up with an announcement of a new Gentoo port to the Hurd: Our crack team has been working hard to port Gentoo to the Hurd and
can now share that they've succeeded, though it remains still in a
heavily experimental stage. You can try Gentoo GNU/Hurd using a
pre-prepared disk image. The easiest way to do this is with QEMU
[...] We have developed scripts to build this image locally and
conveniently work on further development of the Hurd port. Release
media like stages and automated image builds are future goals, as is
feature parity on x86-64. Further contributions are welcome,
encouraged, and needed. Be patient, expect to get your hands dirty,
anticipate breakage, and have fun! Oh, and Gentoo GNU/Hurd also works on real hardware! Text for the April Fool's post is available at the bottom of the
real announcement.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1066241/


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