It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2023.

This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the stable Debian "bookworm" release (June 2023), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release.

Read the announcement email.

The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. It is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux). More detailed.

GNU Mach is the microkernel upon which a GNU Hurd system is based. It provides an Inter Process Communication (IPC) mechanism that the Hurd uses to define interfaces for implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the services a traditional operating system kernel provides. More detailed.

It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2021.

This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the stable Debian "bullseye" release (August 2021), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release.

Read the announcement email.

The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. It is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux). More detailed.

GNU Mach is the microkernel upon which a GNU Hurd system is based. It provides an Inter Process Communication (IPC) mechanism that the Hurd uses to define interfaces for implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the services a traditional operating system kernel provides. More detailed.

It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2019.

This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the stable Debian "buster" release (July 2019), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release.

Read the announcement email.

The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. It is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux). More detailed.

GNU Mach is the microkernel upon which a GNU Hurd system is based. It provides an Inter Process Communication (IPC) mechanism that the Hurd uses to define interfaces for implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the services a traditional operating system kernel provides. More detailed.

Joan Lledó completed a PCI Arbiter for the GNU/Hurd, and Damien Zammit helped polish it. This is a significant development and accomplishment! PCI stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect, and it is a standard that allows many computer peripherals to communicate together with the rest of the system smoothly. Of course, the GNU/Hurd intends to take this further by allowing ordinary users to safely access PCI cards! You can learn more about it in Samuel fosdem talk. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2018-10/msg00029.html

Joan Lledo` updated the GNU/Hurd lwip translator to work with the latest lwip. As a reminder lwip is a lightweight TCP/IP networking stack. The GNU/Hurd lwip translator provides a complete replacement to GNU/Hurd's pfinit. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2018-11/msg00062.html

Damien Zammit created an ACPI translator. This translator provides a translator for mounting x86 ACPI tables under a path as read-only files. It is needed so that other things that depend on ACPI to find the base address such as Intel's IOMMU (DMAR table), memory mapped PCI space (MCFG table) etc, can be discovered in userspace. Otherwise, this functionality would need to be built into gnumach which would be a burden to maintain. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2018-11/msg00049.html

Damien Zammit worked on allowing libstore to open non-mach devices, which is in preparation for rump kernel disk access. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2018-12/msg00050.html

Samuel Thibault allowed non-privileged users to mount their own tmpfs. It turned out to be a permission issue and a trivial fix. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2018-11/msg00012.html

Samuel fixed a bfs issue with /proc not properly mounting. https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2018/10/msg00007.html

Samuel Thibault enabled LLVM to support the Hurd. This can hopefully pave the way to use LLVM sanitizers on the existing GNU/Hurd codebase. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNU-Hurd-LLVM-Clang

Work toward porting Rust and Go to the GNU/Hurd is ongoing: https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2018/11/msg00020.html

Svante Signell worked on adding POSIX file record locking support. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2018-11/msg00058.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2016-12/msg00047.html

So if you want to test if your favorite packages work on the Hurd and contribute towards making the full GNU system usable for a wider range of people, please get in contact -- and maybe already grab the source code.

The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. It is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux). More detailed.

GNU Mach is the microkernel upon which a GNU Hurd system is based. It provides an Inter Process Communication (IPC) mechanism that the Hurd uses to define interfaces for implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the services a traditional operating system kernel provides. More detailed.

It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2017.

This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the stable Debian "stretch" release (May 2017), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release.

Read the announcement email.

The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. It is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux). More detailed.

GNU Mach is the microkernel upon which a GNU Hurd system is based. It provides an Inter Process Communication (IPC) mechanism that the Hurd uses to define interfaces for implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the services a traditional operating system kernel provides. More detailed.

We're pleased to announce new releases!

• GNU Hurd 0.9, NEWS:

  Version 0.9 (2016-12-18)
  
  
  The 'boot' program can now be run as unprivileged user, allowing any
  user to create unprivileged Subhurds.
  
  
  An ethernet multiplexer (eth-multiplexer translator) has been merged
  into this repository.  This is a network multiplexer that makes
  available virtual interfaces, and routes traffic between these and a
  real ethernet interface.  It uses the Berkeley Packet Filter library
  (libbpf), which has also been merged.  The ethernet multiplexer now
  generates and uses stable pseudo-random ethernet addresses for the
  virtual interfaces.
  
  
  As usual, bugs have been fixed throughout the code, notably in
  libpager and ext2fs which now gracefully handles running out of space.
  Further compatibility fixes have been applied (for compliance to
  standards such as POSIX).
  

  Release tarballs may be downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/, http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/, or checked out of Git, http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git. SHA1 checksums:

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  The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. It is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux). More detailed: documentation, what is the GNU Hurd.

• GNU Mach 1.8, NEWS:

  Version 1.8 (2016-12-18)
  
  
  The memory management system was extensively reworked.  A new type for
  physical addresses is now used where appropriate, and the system can
  make use of the high memory segment.  Many paging issues have been
  addressed, and as a result the system handles low memory situations
  more gracefully now.
  
  
  The virtual memory system now uses a red-black tree for allocations,
  and as a result it now supports tasks with tens of thousands of
  mappings.
  
  
  Debugging and error reporting has been improved.  Among other things
  the VM maps are now augmented with names that are used in error
  messages, panics and assertions point to their locations, the lock
  debugging mechanism has been fixed, and the kernel debugger can now
  inspect stack traces reaching into the machine-dependent bits
  implemented in assembler.
  
  
  As usual, bugs have been fixed throughout the code, including minor
  issues with the gsync synchronization mechanism which is now used for
  the internal locks in the GNU C Library (glibc).
  
  
  The deprecated external memory management interface has been removed.
  
  
  The partial ACPI support has been removed.
  

  Release tarballs may be downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnumach/, http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnumach/, or checked out of Git, http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/gnumach.git. SHA1 checksums:

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  28c4a65db3c04bf7508b74a187a3d6aae3a5ce31  gnumach-1.8.tar.gz.sig
  

  GNU Mach is the GNU distribution of the Mach microkernel, upon which a GNU Hurd system is based. The microkernel provides an Inter Process Communication (IPC) mechanism that the Hurd uses to define interfaces for implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the services a traditional operating system kernel provides. More detailed: documentation.

• GNU MIG 1.8, NEWS:

  Version 1.8 (2016-12-18)
  
  
  A spurious warning in the generated code has been fixed.
  

  Release tarballs may be downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mig/, http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mig/, or checked out of Git, http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/mig.git. SHA1 checksums:

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  054ca62368fb7d8e95ca1447510905e3df8906d8  mig-1.8.tar.gz.sig
  

  GNU MIG is the GNU distribution of the Mach 3.0 Interface Generator (MIG). This tool translates Remote Procedure Call (RPC) definition files to C code, and is required to compile any packages that are receiving or invoking RPCs, such as GNU Mach, GNU Hurd, and the GNU C Library (glibc) when compiled for the Hurd. More detailed: documentation.

• glibc-2.23-hurd+libpthread-20161218

  Based on the glibc 2.23 release, we include additional changes for GNU Hurd support, and bundle GNU Hurd's libpthread.

  Snapshot tarballs may be downloaded from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/, http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/, or checked out of Git, http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/glibc.git and http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/libpthread.git. SHA1 checksums:

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  The GNU C Library (glibc) implements a system's standard library functions (as described by ISO C, and POSIX, for example). An important part of the Hurd actually resides in glibc: here, the system interfaces are implemented on top of the Hurd IPC protocols. This is different to the Linux port, where most simple system interfaces are in fact simply forwarded to/implemented as system calls.

Many thanks to all the people who are helping!

If you want to give the Hurd a try, you may easily do so with Debian GNU/Hurd.

The GNU Hurd system currently runs on 32-bit x86 machines. To compile the Hurd, you need a toolchain configured to target i?86-gnu; you cannot use a toolchain targeting GNU/Linux.

Please read the FAQ. Bug reports should be sent to bug-hurd or filed on http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=hurd. Requests for assistance should be sent to help-hurd or filed on http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=hurd. You can also find us on the Freenode IRC network in the #hurd channel.

We're pleased to announce new releases!

• GNU Hurd 0.8, NEWS:

  Version 0.8 (2016-05-18)
  
  
  The netfs library is using the lockless reference-counting primitives
  for both peropen and node objects now, and the global reference
  counting lock has been removed.
  
  
  The integer hashing library gained a new interface to use non-integer
  keys.  It is now used in libdiskfs' and nfs' node cache, and the ftpfs
  translator.
  
  
  Several bugs in our native fakeroot tool have been fixed improving
  stability and correctness of the translation.
  
  
  The devnode translator and the hurd-slab library have been merged into this
  repository.
  
  
  The code has been cleaned up, and we fixed numerous bugs, most notably
  a crash in pfinet, a locking bug in libdiskfs, and an out-of-bounds
  access in ext2fs' block cache.
  

  Release tarballs may be downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/, http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/, or checked out of Git, http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git. SHA1 checksums:

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  The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. It is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux). More detailed: documentation, what is the GNU Hurd.

• GNU Mach 1.7, NEWS:

  Version 1.7 (2016-05-18)
  
  
  The code has been updated to work with newer versions of GCC, and numerous bugs
  have been fixed throughout the code, including a pageout deadlock.  The code
  uses integer types from <stdint.h> now instead of the old Mach types.
  
  
  The VM cache policy change has been merged.  The kernel now caches
  unreferenced VM objects unconditionally instead of using a fixed
  limit.
  
  
  The physical page allocator of the X15 kernel has been integrated, and
  is now used directly by the slab allocator.  This increases the kernel
  heap addressing important scalability issues.
  
  
  The gsync synchronization mechanism was added, similar to the Linux kernel's
  futexes, to allow efficient and powerful userland synchronization.
  
  
  Support for profiling kernel code from userland through sampling was added.
  

  Release tarballs may be downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnumach/, http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnumach/, or checked out of Git, http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/gnumach.git. SHA1 checksums:

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  GNU Mach is the GNU distribution of the Mach microkernel, upon which a GNU Hurd system is based. The microkernel provides an Inter Process Communication (IPC) mechanism that the Hurd uses to define interfaces for implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the services a traditional operating system kernel provides. More detailed: documentation.

• GNU MIG 1.7, NEWS:

  Version 1.7 (2016-05-18)
  
  
  MIG now has a test suite.  It includes a set of valid and invalid
  definition files that MIG will try to process.  For valid
  definitions, GCC will compile the stubs to check if valid C code was
  generated.
  
  
  The generated code uses integer types from <stdint.h> now instead of
  the old Mach types.
  
  
  Code that was hard-coding the word size has been identified and
  fixed.
  
  
  Support for the obsolete kinds of RPC routines 'functions',
  'procedures', and 'simple procedures' has been removed.
  
  
  MIG now emits code that casts objects translated from capabilities
  to the correct C type.
  

  Release tarballs may be downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mig/, http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mig/, or checked out of Git, http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/mig.git. SHA1 checksums:

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  GNU MIG is the GNU distribution of the Mach 3.0 Interface Generator (MIG). This tool translates Remote Procedure Call (RPC) definition files to C code, and is required to compile any packages that are receiving or invoking RPCs, such as GNU Mach, GNU Hurd, and the GNU C Library (glibc) when compiled for the Hurd. More detailed: documentation.

• glibc-2.19-hurd+libpthread-20160518

  Based on the glibc 2.19 release, we include additional changes for GNU Hurd support, and bundle GNU Hurd's libpthread.

  Snapshot tarballs may be downloaded from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/, http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/, or checked out of Git, http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/glibc.git and http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/libpthread.git. SHA1 checksums:

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  The GNU C Library (glibc) implements a system's standard library functions (as described by ISO C, and POSIX, for example). An important part of the Hurd actually resides in glibc: here, the system interfaces are implemented on top of the Hurd IPC protocols. This is different to the Linux port, where most simple system interfaces are in fact simply forwarded to/implemented as system calls.

Many thanks to all the people who are helping!

If you want to give the Hurd a try, you may easily do so with Debian GNU/Hurd.

The GNU Hurd system currently runs on 32-bit x86 machines. To compile the Hurd, you need a toolchain configured to target i?86-gnu; you cannot use a toolchain targeting GNU/Linux.

Please read the FAQ. Bug reports should be sent to bug-hurd or filed on http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=hurd. Requests for assistance should be sent to help-hurd or filed on http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=hurd. You can also find us on the Freenode IRC network in the #hurd channel.

We're pleased to announce new releases!

• GNU Hurd 0.7, NEWS:

  Version 0.7 (2015-10-31)
  
  
  The node cache in ext2fs has been improved, generalized, and moved to
  libdiskfs.  It is now also used by isofs and fatfs.
  
  
  The native fakeroot tool has been greatly improved.  It now handles
  named sockets, and multiple corner cases related to permissions were
  identified and fixed.
  
  
  A new utility `rpcscan' has been introduced.  It scans Mach servers
  and displays the RPCs handled by the associated demuxer.
  
  
  A long-standing synchronization issue involving the filesystem
  translators, libdiskfs, and libpager has been identified and fixed.
  
  
  The code has been updated to work with newer versions of the compiler
  and libc, and numerous bugs have been fixed throughout the code.
  

  Release tarballs may be downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/, http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/, or checked out of Git, http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git. SHA1 checksums:

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  The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. It is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux). More detailed: documentation, what is the GNU Hurd.

• GNU Mach 1.6, NEWS:

  Version 1.6 (2015-10-31)
  
  
  The code has been updated to work with newer versions of the compiler,
  and numerous bugs have been fixed throughout the code.
  
  
  The lock debugging infrastructure has been revived and improved, and
  many locking issues have been fixed.
  
  
  The IPC tables and the hash table mapping objects to IPC entries have
  been replaced by radix trees.  This addresses a scalability issue, as
  IPC tables required huge amounts of continuous virtual kernel memory.
  
  
  The kernel now allows non-privileged users to wire a small amount of
  memory.
  
  
  A bug hindering the eviction of inactive pages by the pageout daemon
  has been identified and fixed.
  
  
  The kernel now keeps timestamps relative to the system boot time.
  Among other things this fixes bogus uptime readings if the system time
  is altered.
  
  
  A reference leak in the exception handling mechanism has been
  identified and fixed.
  
  
  ANSI escape sequences are now handled when using `printf'.  This fixes
  the formatting of messages printed by various Linux drivers.
  

  Release tarballs may be downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnumach/, http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnumach/, or checked out of Git, http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/gnumach.git. SHA1 checksums:

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  GNU Mach is the GNU distribution of the Mach microkernel, upon which a GNU Hurd system is based. The microkernel provides an Inter Process Communication (IPC) mechanism that the Hurd uses to define interfaces for implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the services a traditional operating system kernel provides. More detailed: documentation.

• GNU MIG 1.6, NEWS:

  Version 1.6 (2015-10-31)
  
  
  MIG now emits RPC lookup functions that are declared `static inline'
  improving compatibility with newer dialects of C.
  

  Release tarballs may be downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mig/, http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mig/, or checked out of Git, http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/mig.git. SHA1 checksums:

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  GNU MIG is the GNU distribution of the Mach 3.0 Interface Generator (MIG). This tool translates Remote Procedure Call (RPC) definition files to C code, and is required to compile any packages that are receiving or invoking RPCs, such as GNU Mach, GNU Hurd, and the GNU C Library (glibc) when compiled for the Hurd. More detailed: documentation.

• glibc-2.19-hurd+libpthread-20151031

  Snapshot tarballs may be downloaded from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/, http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/, or checked out of Git, http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/glibc.git and http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/libpthread.git. SHA1 checksums:

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  The GNU C Library (glibc) implements a system's standard library functions (as described by ISO C, and POSIX, for example). An important part of the Hurd actually resides in glibc: here, the system interfaces are implemented on top of the Hurd IPC protocols. This is different to the Linux port, where most simple system interfaces are in fact simply forwarded to/implemented as system calls.

Many thanks to all the people who are helping!

If you want to give the Hurd a try, you may easily do so with Debian GNU/Hurd.

The GNU Hurd system currently runs on 32-bit x86 machines. To compile the Hurd, you need a toolchain configured to target i?86-gnu; you cannot use a toolchain targeting GNU/Linux.

Please read the FAQ. Bug reports should be sent to bug-hurd or filed on http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=hurd. Requests for assistance should be sent to help-hurd or filed on http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=hurd. You can also find us on the Freenode IRC network in the #hurd channel.

It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2015.

This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the stable Debian "jessie" release (April 2015), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release.

Read the announcement email.

The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. It is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux). More detailed.

GNU Mach is the microkernel upon which a GNU Hurd system is based. It provides an Inter Process Communication (IPC) mechanism that the Hurd uses to define interfaces for implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the services a traditional operating system kernel provides. More detailed.