{"id":208851,"date":"2026-02-01T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/gnu-hurd-is-almost-there-with-x86_64-smp-75-of-debian-packages-building\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T11:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:50:09","slug":"gnu-hurd-is-almost-there-with-x86_64-smp-75-of-debian-packages-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/gnu-hurd-is-almost-there-with-x86_64-smp-75-of-debian-packages-building\/","title":{"rendered":"GNU Hurd Is &#8220;Almost There&#8221; With x86_64, SMP &#038; ~75% Of Debian Packages Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/GNU-Hurd-In-2026\">GNU Hurd Is &#8220;Almost There&#8221; With x86_64, SMP &#038; ~75% Of Debian Packages Building<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/GNU-Hurd-In-2026\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/GNU-Hurd-In-2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-01 10:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s was a bit more optimistic thanks to recent driver progress and more software now successfully building for Hurd.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s rump layer.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=gnu_hurd_1\" alt=\"GNU\/Hurd 2026 status report\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hurd for years has also lacked SMP support for modern multi-core systems but that too has been improving in recent times. Similarly, Hurd for the longest time was predominantly x86 32-bit only but the x86_64 port is now essentially complete and there is even eyes toward AArch64 support.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=gnu_hurd_2\" alt=\"GNU\/Hurd 64-bit support\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Debian GNU\/Hurd has been an unofficial Debian distribution and alternative to using the Linux kernel while Guix\/Hurd and Alpine\/Hurd distributions have also come about too for more Hurd exposure and testing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=gnu_hurd_3\" alt=\"GNU\/Hurd SMP support\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Samuel shared that around 75% of the Debian archive is currently building for the GNU\/Hurd distribution including desktop environments and more.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=gnu_hurd_4\" alt=\"GNU\/Hurd 2026 status in 2026\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The FOSDEM 2026 presentation on GNU\/Hurd concluded with a proclamation that &#8220;GNU\/Hurd is almost there&#8221; with the Debian\/Guix\/Arch\/Alpine distributions but that the developers can always use extra help with community contributions.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=gnu_hurd_5\" alt=\"GNU\/Hurd 2026 state\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Those curious about GNU\/Hurd in 2026 can find the presentation by Samuel Thibault at FOSDEM.org.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/GNU-Hurd-In-2026\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GNU Hurd Is &#8220;Almost There&#8221; With x86_64, SMP &#038; ~75% Of Debian Packages Building https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/GNU-Hurd-In-2026&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=gnu_hurd_5","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[91,71],"class_list":["post-208851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-debian","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208853,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208851\/revisions\/208853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}