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

On 4/1/26 10:35 PM, zyxhere💭 wrote:
> On Thu, 2026-04-02 at 08:33 +0500, zyxhere💭 wrote:
>> 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
> But yes it would be good to update the news item.
> Now whos going to
> update https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_(software)#GNU_Hurd ;)
>


I had found the Gentoo wiki page, which was sparse on info as well. I 
had not looked on the Wikipedia website for info.  I thought this might 
just be a Gentoo based thing, not knowing what it was yet.

I've only read the first part of the Wikipedia page but it sounds like a 
replacement for the regular Linux kernel.  Which may be a good thing.  
Or not.  ;-)

Uh, maybe a link on the Gentoo pages to the Wikipedia page would help?  
It seems to have some good info on the topic.  Just a thought.

Thanks for the info.  Back to my hole now.

Dale

:-)  :-)