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A comment on GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2. Parent comment

Re:GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 by 0cf8612b2e1e on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @04:45PM (#49188762)
What even is a 20% delta in performance? Like a five year old difference in hardware design.

If I could get a micro kernel with a better security profile than Linux, that doesn’t sound so bad. I could easily be using a ten year old chip for my day to day browsing and probably wouldn’t notice.

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Re:GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday August 06, 2026 @12:38AM (#49192511)
> If I could get a micro kernel with a better security profile than Linux, that doesn’t sound so bad.

I suggest that you look at genode/sculpt:)

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