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It is not clear to me how LLMs were used to do what, on which project. I heard something about gnumach, and I have seen some email conversation and I'm also not sure if other projects were involved.
In any case, Guix is just the packager and this blog post is, I believe, mainly about the enormous efforts that were done the past 15 months in Guix. Of course we also mention work done upstream during this period.
I would appreciate it if you could take any questions or insights you may have about upstream Hurd project work or upstream Hurd project policies, and address them to the upstream Hurd project.
Also, for a free software project it is not always helpful to ask questions from the sideline and move along, it is often much more appreciated if you match any questions with services or work that you are willing to offer.
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"The 64-bit #Hurd is Here!" -- and available in #Guix
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2026/the-64-bit-hurd/
And cross compile for the Hurd just works:
$ guix build --system=x86_64-gnu hello
I think Guix has a huge impact on neighboring projects (Guile, RDE, Hurd, etc) carrying them forward and making it easier to work on them.
Today, want to send some kudos to Hurd team. You are doing great, pretty happy to see alternative kernels going forward! It's one of the hardest CS tasks and it's pleasure to see the progress with it. Very few people are brave enough to commit into such adventure.
Udviklingen af GNU/Herd-projektet skrider stille og roligt fremad. Herd har fået 64-bit support, og bevæger sig tættere på måske en dag at blive et alternativ til Linux og Linux-Libre-projekterne*.
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2026/the-64-bit-hurd/
Det særligt interessante ved Herd-projektet er, at det bygger på en microkernel-arkitektur**, hvor hovedkernel'en GNU Mach, og de øvrige servere som består af f.eks filsystemer og hardwareinterfaces er afkoblet fra hinanden.
Hvis du vil udvikle på Herd eller prøve en distribution, så findes der både Guix og Debian - hardwaresupporten er minimal, så du får mest ud af at bruge en virtuel maskine.
https://guix.gnu.org/en/download/latest/
https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-cd
Link til selve Hurd-projektet: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/
*) Linux-Libre er en standard Linux-kernel fra GNU-projektet, men uden proprietær firmware o.lign., mens GNU Herd er "sin egen" - ligeledes uden proprietære "blobs".
**) Se illustration herunder med arkitektur-forskelle