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Debian GNU/Hurd now can compile 71% of the packages from the Debian archive
! Welcome to a new qoth. This qoth covers new and interesting GNU/Hurd developments in Q2 of 2024! Sergey Bugaev committed public headers for the GNU Mach AArch64 port.
We got the Mach port to run glibc, several Hurd servers, and simple Unix programs, including things like fork/exec and signal delivery & handling working, which exercises these architecture-specific definitions (thread state & exceptions). Some time ago, Sergey also wrote the terrible-mdns-responder, and if you would like to be able to type in ssh HOSTNAME.local and connect to a locally running Hurd, then you may want to try it! 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.
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