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A 64-bit GNU/Hurd is also coming soon,
progress is tracked on [[open_issues/64-bit_port]]!
-Hurd developers ported GNUMach to
+Hurd developers ported GNU Mach to
64-bit some time ago. Then they started making significant progress
-on the x86_64 userland port in Feb 2023. As of September 2024, the
+on the x86_64 userland port in Feb 2023. As of April 2025, the
Debian hurd-amd64 port works just like the hurd-i386, except for
missing packages and more
[[bugs|https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2024-07/msg00058.html]],
-namely swapping issues with rumpdisk and deadlocking issues with
-libdiskfs/ext2fs. We are currently building
-64-bit packages. We plan on supporting both a 32-bit and 64-bit Debian
-GNU/Hurd, only not both at the same time. However, there is no plan to fix the
-year 2038 concern on a 32-bit system.
+namely swapping issues with rumpdisk, deadlocking issues with
+libdiskfs/ext2fs, and the hurd-console fails to start, which means that
+you cannot use X.
+
+We are currently building 64-bit packages. We plan on supporting both a
+32-bit and 64-bit Debian GNU/Hurd, only not both at the same time.
+However, there is no plan to fix the year 2038 concern on a 32-bit system.
That being said, you can always run a 32-bit version on a 64-bit machine, it
just works, processes are just limited to a couple GiB available memory.