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diff --git a/hurd/status.mdwn b/hurd/status.mdwn index bc04d78d..28919995 100644 --- a/hurd/status.mdwn +++ b/hurd/status.mdwn @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ drivers, and experimental support for SATA devices was added in May 2013. Robert Millan worked on a port of the Rump kernel, which allowed to run a sound driver in userland. This work now needs to be extended. Support for character devices and other hardware (USB, multicore) is mostly missing. +Damien Zammit added [[RumpDisk|hurd/rump/rumpdisk]], which lets the Hurd +boot and use SSDs with a minimal NetBSD kernel running in userspace. Although the [[POSIX interface|faq/posix_compatibility]] is provided, some additional interfaces @@ -56,14 +58,28 @@ official Debian release), in April 2015 the [[Debian GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]] team released [[Debian GNU/Hurd 2015|news/2015-04-29-debian_gnu_hurd_2015]]. Similarly, along Debian "stretch", in June 2017 [[Debian GNU/Hurd 2017|news/2017-06-18-debian_gnu_hurd_2017]] was released. +The latest release is from +[[2023|https://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/news/2023-06-11-debian_gnu_hurd_2023/]]. + +With [[Guix System|hurd/running/guix]] one can trivially run a childhurd or a +hurd vm running atop GNU/Linux. The adventurous can run it on +[[real iron|https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2024/hurd-on-thinkpad/]]. [[hurd/running/Arch_Hurd]] offers *LiveCDs* for testing and installation. [[hurd/running/Nix]] provides QEMU images. - ## Usability Reports +### Joshua Branson, 2025-04-30 + +I've had my T43 Thinkpad with 1.5 GB of RAM running Debian GNU/Hurd +for about a year now. I use a combination of the i3 window +manager, emacs, git, the netsurf web browser, and a terminal to edit +this wiki. The Hurd is fairly stable, but it tends to lock up on me +about once a month. While I am fairly certain that I have had some +filesystem corruption, I have not noticed any lost files yet. + ### Svante Signell, 2013-05-21 I have been running GNU/Hurd for some years now, with VMs, mainly in the |