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WDYT about GNU
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this post was submitted on 31 May 2026
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To be fair, Hurd recently made a decent splash. And strictly speaking, it's troubles weren't specifically GNU. Without all the legal quagmire around BSD we would all be on it. Linux would just be some niche hobby project just like Hurd. It was unfortunately a victim of timing. Both in that sense and the direction computing took in the future. Heavy IPC across multiple discrete CPU cores is a bad idea for performance. It works but it's slooooow
It did? When? Where?
There were some significant milestones reached in the last year. Trying to find the source I saw. But a quick check implies that it got x86-64-bit support as well as being able to run on bare metal now. Not just virtual machines inside of qemu. Definitely nothing Earth shattering or going to turn the current order on its head. But some solid progress regardless.