{"id":218657,"date":"2026-03-01T05:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/gnu-hurd-finally-runs-on-x86_64-with-new-64-bit-port\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T05:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:50:09","slug":"gnu-hurd-finally-runs-on-x86_64-with-new-64-bit-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/gnu-hurd-finally-runs-on-x86_64-with-new-64-bit-port\/","title":{"rendered":"GNU Hurd Finally Runs on x86_64 With New 64-Bit Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/gnu-hurd-finally-runs-on-x86-64-with-new-64-bit-port\/\">GNU Hurd Finally Runs on x86_64 With New 64-Bit Port<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/gnu-hurd-finally-runs-on-x86-64-with-new-64-bit-port\/\">https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/gnu-hurd-finally-runs-on-x86-64-with-new-64-bit-port\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-01 05:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"linuxiac.com\">linuxiac.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GNU Project has announced a major milestone: native 64-bit support for GNU Hurd is now available through GNU Guix.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not familiar with it, let me shed some light. GNU Hurd is the kernel of the GNU operating system. Unlike the Linux kernel, however, Hurd uses a microkernel design based on GNU Mach. Core services run as separate user-space servers that communicate through message passing. Launched in the early 1990s, Hurd has remained largely experimental.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, GNU Hurd was limited to 32-bit x86 systems. The absence of x86_64 support restricted its use on modern hardware. But not anymore. With 64-bit builds now available in Guix, Hurd can run natively on current x86_64 systems.<\/p>\n<p>The new 64-bit support expands Hurd\u2019s memory addressing and aligns it with current hardware standards. According to the Guix announcement, x86_64 Hurd system images are now available for installation or testing through Guix System tools.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that, despite this progress, GNU Hurd remains experimental. It is not a production-ready alternative to Linux, and hardware support still lags behind mainstream kernels. However, 64-bit builds make it more accessible for developers and researchers interested in its architecture.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see the announcement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/gnu-hurd-finally-runs-on-x86-64-with-new-64-bit-port\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GNU Hurd Finally Runs on x86_64 With New 64-Bit Port https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/gnu-hurd-finally-runs-on-x86-64-with-new-64-bit-port\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-01 05:41:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gnu-guix-hurd.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-218657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218657"}],"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=218657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218659,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218657\/revisions\/218659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}