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In early 2024, Sergey Bugaev hacked together a Hurd OS running via
Alpine; he just replaced musl and Linux with glibc and the Hurd.  His
goal was to boot the Hurd with busybox and OpenRC (one can install
bash, if one wishes).  You can [read the annoucement
email](https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-hurd/2024-01/msg00180.html).  The
source code is [here](https://github.com/bugaevc/aports/).

He doesn't want to call it Alpine Hurd, because upstream Alpine is not
the biggest fan of GNU.  It has not seen a ton of activity lately, but
anyone is free to revive it.