Arch Hurd is a distribution of the

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with

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(instead of the

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kernel, that comes with

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distribution). The Arch Hurd project was founded on an Arch Linux forum thread in January 2010 and, after a few weeks with many contributions, progressed to the point where it could boot in a

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. It aims to provide an Arch-like user environment (

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-style

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scripts,

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-optimised packages, use of the pacman package manager, rolling-release, and a

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set up) on the Hurd which is stable enough for use.

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Arch Hurd is currently not at a stable state. Arch Hurd does not have a downloadable image of the operating system although it formerly did a
Arch Hurd LiveCD
Although, you can find re-uploads of the operating system and chroot into it vi
Debian GNU/Hurd
and it would be usable. Despite having a small development team, much progress has been made since its founding, such as booting on real hardware, packaging everything for a basic

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, and the production of an unofficial graphical LiveCD. In June 2011, Arch Hurd announced successful integration of Device Driver Environment (''DDE'') — the framework for Linux drivers on Hurd, which improves the network hardware support in the distribution and makes it nearly usable. , the official packages were last updated in May 2019, and the latest message fro
Arch Hurd's website
is from May 25 2021. Development activity on the Git repository is still occurring.

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