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GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" With x86_64, SMP & ~75% Of Debian Packages Building (www.phoronix.com)
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Samuel Thibault offered up a status update on the current state of GNU/Hurd from a presentation in Brussels at FOSDEM 2026. Thibault has previously shared updates on GNU Hurd from the annual FOSDEM event while this year's was a bit more optimistic thanks to recent driver progress and more software now successfully building for Hurd.

GNU/Hurd continues to lag behind the Linux kernel and other modern platforms for hardware driver support. But driver support for Hurd has been improving thanks to NetBSD's rump layer.

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[-] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I just discovered pth (not the new one npth), yielding threads in 1999, wtf happens at GNU? 20 years before anyone applied that and said "holy shit". 1999.

Edit:

The thread scheduling itself is done in a cooperative way, i.e., the threads are managed by a priority- and event-based non-preemptive scheduler.

1999

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