Re: News items for Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 release?
August 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM, "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@gnu.org mailto:samuel.thibault@gnu.org?to=%22Samuel%20Thibault%22%20%3Csamuel.thibault%40gnu.org%3E > wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> As Debian Trixie is to be released this week-end, I'll publish iso
> images for a Debian GNU/Hurd 2025. The question is what features did we
> collect since 2023, to be put in the news? On the top of my head I can
> think of the following mainlines:
>
> - obviously, now-working 64b support with the same ~ 70% Debian archive
> coverage (actually a bit more than 32b since some packages are
> 64b-only)
> - this port is completely using userland disk drivers from FreeBSD
> thanks to the Rump layer.
> - we now use xattr by default for recording translators, allowing to
> bootstrap seamlessly from other OSes, with mmdebstrap for instance.
> - rust was ported
> - USB disk&cd support
> - quite-working SMP support
> - the console is now using xkb for keyboard layouts, and supports
> multiboot-provided framebuffer
> - various additional support (acpi, rtc, apic, hpet, ...)
> - documentation improvement
> - various other fixes (irqs, nfsv3, libports, pipes corner cases, ...)
>
> (and we need to point people at the FAQ: comments in webnews show how
> much people ask the same questions over and over without imagining that
> perhaps the FAQ could just answer them all...)
>
> Do you think of anything else?
>
> Samuel
>
Is the ext2fs journal too experimental to mention?
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