GNU Hurd Gets Improvements: User-Space Driver Support and More 163
jones_supa writes "At FOSDEM 2014 some recent developments of GNU Hurd were discussed (PDF slides). In the name of freedom, GNU Hurd has now the ability to run device drivers from user-space via the project's DDE layer. Among the mentioned use-cases for the GNU Hurd DDE are allowing VPN traffic to just one application, mounting one's own files, redirecting a user's audio, and more flexible hardware support. You can also run Linux kernel drivers in Hurd's user-space. Hurd developers also have working IDE support, X.Org / graphics support, an AHCI driver for Serial ATA, and a Xen PV DomU. Besides the 64-bit support not being in a usable state, USB and sound support is still missing. As some other good news for GNU Hurd, around 79% of the Debian archive is now building for GNU Hurd, including the Xfce desktop (GNOME and KDE soon) and Firefox web browser."
Re:HURD is an embarrassment (Score:2, Funny)
This no more reflects poorly on Open Source software than my crap github account.
Yeah, we weren't going to bring up your "contributions" quite yet, but since you mentioned it...
GNU HURD (Score:3, Funny)
Bringing you the technology of 1997...TODAY!
That's nice... (Score:4, Funny)
User space driver's are one thing, but I'm still waiting for the day whe HURD gets a user.