--- title: They Weren’t Joking: Gentoo WAS Ported To GNU Hurd description: Gentoo Linux has been ported to run on GNU Hurd, the FSF's microkernel-based OS kernel. What started as an April Fools' joke on April 1st, 2026 turned out to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/they-weren-t-joking-gentoo-was-ported-to-gnu-hurd-mqoazcjkg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: They Weren’t Joking: Gentoo WAS Ported To GNU Hurd | daily.dev og:description: Gentoo Linux has been ported to run on GNU Hurd, the FSF's microkernel-based OS kernel. What started as an April Fools' joke on April 1st, 2026 turned out to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/they-weren-t-joking-gentoo-was-ported-to-gnu-hurd-mqoazcjkg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mqoAZCJKg.png og:image:alt: They Weren’t Joking: Gentoo WAS Ported To GNU Hurd og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # They Weren’t Joking: Gentoo WAS Ported To GNU Hurd **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Gentoo Linux has been ported to run on GNU Hurd, the FSF's microkernel-based OS kernel. What started as an April Fools' joke on April 1st, 2026 turned out to be real — though the joke was that Gentoo was fully abandoning Linux, not that the Hurd port existed. Linux remains the default and best-supported kernel for Gentoo. GNU Hurd uses a microkernel architecture derived from Mach, keeping drivers out of kernel space, but driver support remains limited. Debian has also quietly supported Hurd installs for years. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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