GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2

Cool to finally see some small silly tech stuff here that isn't trying to make money.

It seems Samuel Thibault is still there, sweet.

ps: some slides from earlier this year https://fosdem.org/2026/events/attachments/7FZXHF-updates_on...

full vid here https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnu...

Does anyone more familiar with Hurd know how they addressed performance issues encountered by other Mach-based kernels? I remember reading that one of Mach's bottlenecks was validating that each IPC message had proper permissions/access when sending them between processes due to the large number and frequency of messages.

I hope Hurd has its day. Maybe in 100 years or something.

> I plan to build bootable images and boot the kernel on Apple M1

GuixSD with GNU Hurd would be a really fun way to repurpose an old MBP.

Next year will be the year of GNU Hurd, as well as The Desktop Linux Year and people really using HaikuOS on real hardware for years. You read it here first!

Wow.