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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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[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

MacOS' XNU kernel is derived from the Mach microkernel, the same one on which Hurd is built. (Or at least approximately the same, since apparently there were various editions of Mach.)

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