Re: [PATCH 00/94] Porting Gentoo to the Hurd

On Wed, 2026-04-01 at 22:09 -0500, Dale wrote:
> On 4/1/26 9:50 PM, Randy Barlow wrote:
> > On Wed, 2026-04-01 at 11:36 +0100, Sam James wrote:
> > > [Announcement accompanies
> > > https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/04/01/gentoo-hurd.html]
> > > 
> > > The year is 2026 and Gentoo is perhaps ready for an advanced kernel:
> > > the GNU Hurd.
> > Simply incredible work! No notes.
> > 
> 
> 
> As a user, it may be good to explain what exactly Hurd is, the news page 
> announcing it would be a nice place for that.  I've never heard of it 
> and so far, still have no idea what it is?  Is this a new distro based 
> on Gentoo, new package manager or something else?
> 
> If one can update the news article, I can read that and no need to reply 
> here.  Plus, others like me will have a idea on this as well. I may not 
> be the only one who hasn't heard of this new thing.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd a microkernel by the GNU folks