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Re:Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released by pmoriarty on Sunday June 18, 2017 @10:41AM (#14580832)
Does Hurd use systemd?

Also, how's the performance? The last time I tried Hurd the performance was atrocious.

Re:Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released by ArneBab on Sunday June 18, 2017 @06:24PM (#14583324)
No, and systemd would not add compelling features to the Hurd, since the Hurd already provides most of the advertised advantages of systemd, but cleanly integrated into the system — and has been doing so for decades.

Some of the reasons for that are discussed in this article: http://www.draketo.de/light/english/free-software/some-techn...

If you want performance from the Hurd, run it in a qemu VM so it profits from the caching algorithms of the Linux host. Then performance is actually pretty good — and you still gain most of the advantages of using the Hurd as OS.

Re:Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released by qubex on Sunday June 18, 2017 @12:10PM (#14581281)
No, it has an initialisation server (helpfully called init): https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-doc-server#init

I'm curious to know what made you wonder whether it did, and whether you would consider that a positive or a negative (and why).

Re:Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released by teythoon on Sunday June 18, 2017 @05:21PM (#14583020)
No, it has an startup server (helpfully called startup), since 2015: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/tree/NEWS#n86
Re:Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released by qubex on Monday June 19, 2017 @01:05AM (#14584726)
I stand corrected. Apparently things have changed since I last used it. Apologies to all.