The GNU project was started in 1983 and in 2025 you can finally use a pure GNU operating system. Not that you’d want to but that is some serious perseverance.
BTW Guix+Hurd, a fully GNU OS, has been around for quite a while now: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/a-hello-world-virtual-machine-running-the-hurd. You can even run it on real hardware: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2024/hurd-on-thinkpad/
I learned about this via Guix but didn’t notice that. Nice!
Didn’t debian already offer a hurd image many years ago? I could be wrong but i thought i heard (or hurd hah) someone mention it in a video recently. I think it was on old guix video from dt (i decided to try and write a guix config so i was watching some guix content).
How can I find out if it supports ext4? if it does I might install it tonight. I have been waiting for Hurd for over a decade.
So what’s the difference between this kernel and the Linux kernel? Are they both intended to be interface-equivalent (even if they aren’t in the same place on the implementation side)? Any fundamentally different design policies?
“You can now use Debian without Linux” is a misleading headline: should read “A small but growing number of experts can now use Debian without Linux.” Most of “us” probably cannot.
Huh. Guess Debian really is the Universal Operating System that’ll run on anything.
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With systemd? AFAIK, it’s a hard dependency this days.
nitrux doesnt use it afaik
