31. May 2016 · Comments Off on The end of the thundering Hurd · Categories: The Hurd

It’s 2016, and the Hurd project is still alive. Barely, as a bunch of only three to five people “regularly” contribute, but it is alive. And it’s making progress. More »

15. September 2014 · Comments Off on Iceweasel 31 on Debian GNU/Hurd · Categories: The Hurd

https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2014/09/msg00070.html.

For some reason, the system has become more unstable recently. I’ve seen it freeze as soon as swapping memory out. I suspect it’s because of recent changes on the ext2 file system. These changes are good but they expose existing bugs we didn’t suffer from in the past. In order to cope with that, I’ve been using a kernel with no VM object cache, and completely synchronous file system accesses.