GNU Hurd Begins Supporting Sound, Still Working On 64-bit & USB Support (phoronix.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday January 31, 2016 @04:22AM from the pretty-soon-big-and-fancy-like-gnu dept.

An anonymous reader writes: GNU developer Samuel Thibault presented at this weekend's FOSDEM conference about the current state of GNU Hurd. He shared that over the past year they've started working on experimental sound support as their big new feature. They also have x86 64-bit support to the point that the kernel can boot, but not much beyond that stage yet. USB and other functionality remains a work-in-progress. Those curious about this GNU kernel project can find more details via the presentation media.

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Re:What's the point by short · 2016-01-31 04:38 · Score: 5, Informative

Thanks to the microkernel architecture you will no longer have to reboot system just to get rid of that stale lock on an accidentally removed USB disk or unmountable --bind mount in /proc/mounts due to non-existing user/usecount or due to some crashed driver locking up your PCI device etc. I could transparently restart crashed ntfs.sys emulated under Linux in 2003 while Linux kernel still can't do that with its native filesystems.