GNU Hurd gets 9pfs, OpenNTPD, dynamic /dev/ entries, and more
The GNU Hurd kernel development team has released a progress update highlighting new experimental support for 9pfs and OpenNTPD. Additionally, developers are working on dynamic /dev/ entry population to replace static translators.
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Advancements in niche operating system kernels provide alternative architectural approaches to mainstream computing environments.
The hottest and most promising operating system kernel in development, the GNU Hurd, has published another summary of its most recent quarter of development. Hurd has experimental support for 9pfs now, a work-in–progress port of OpenNTPD, the NTP daemon from OpenBSD, a port of Neovim , and a few more ports here and there.
Diving deeper into the actual kernel itself, there’s a major improvement to how the Hurd handles entries in /dev/ :
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