Here I can’t watch on freetube, I’m not even on a vpn :/, fails on librewolf without account too. yewtu.be is working.

Yeah, 64 bits isn’t working on bare metal (wd0 problems, seems to be the disk from the netbsd drivers), 32 bits is tho, trying dwm right now hahaha.

Look at my other comment, there’s something cooking at GNU, idk but i’m hyped. I think Windows and MacOS (darwin/XNU) are hybrids, some parts in userspace, other parts in the kernel.

Edit: the macos kernel

I just discovered pth (not the new one npth), yielding threads in 1999, wtf happens at GNU? 20 years before anyone applied that and said “holy shit”. 1999.

Edit:

The thread scheduling itself is done in a cooperative way, i.e., the threads are managed by a priority- and event-based non-preemptive scheduler.

1999

It seems x86_64 is finished, the article cites that too:

Similarly, Hurd for the longest time was predominantly x86 32-bit only but the x86_64 port is now essentially complete and there is even eyes toward AArch64 support.

Now it’s arm64.

I’m more hopeful, I wrote a very basic userland thread scheduler in rust, like tokio, for full virtual threading (yielding instead of blocking), from a Java Virtual Thread inspiration and damn, the performance is amazing, just changing kernel scheduling to userland scheduling. I think Hurd would be the perfect kernel for that kind of next generation performance bump, a global scheduler with userland virtual processes and virtual threads. A microkernel has some advantages that weren’t event thought if not for recent developments, imagine what it could do, docker, kubernetes, podman, (the containers, not the engines) all inside subhurds or virtualized in a thin layer without cgroups or anything.

I think it’s the future, but it’s the future since the 80s hahaha.

Edit: the virtual thread scheduler is just a toy project, but I was impressed.

Podman is amazing, I’m using it when I can. Sometimes some distros ship an older version and can cause problems, but on a newer version I don’t see the reason to use docker ever again.