Gentoo GNU/Hurd – Gentoo Linux

Gentoo News [Apr 1, 2026]: We are proud to announce that Gentoo plans to switch to GNU Hurd as its primary kernel. Our crack team of boffins has been working hard to port Gentoo to the Hurd and can now share that that they’ve succeeded, though it remains still in a heavily experimental stage.

Linux has long been a source of unreliability. Despite the experimental status of the port, we’ve found the Hurd to be immensely more robust, and hope to be able to discontinue Linux support by the end of 2026. Previous generations of developers already attempted to port Gentoo to the Hurd, but the world was not yet ready. It is now. You can try Gentoo GNU Hurd using a pre-prepared disk image.