Hello and welcome to another Qoth! Here's what's been happening in Q2 of 2026!

Joshua Branson added a pretty cool svg logo for our ethernet multiplexor . He built that image with Inkscape whilst using a Hurd laptop (Thinkpad 420) running on real iron! The Hurd wiki could certainly use more artwork. Perhaps you have a favorite Hurd translator that you believes needs some artwork!

Sergey Bugaev announced his WIP 9pfs ( source code ), and it has a wiki page ! He writes:

Some years ago, I experimented with implementing a 9P translator for the Hurd. Hopefully there is no need to tell this list what 9P is :)

Besides just browsing files on the few existing servers out there, a potential use case is virtio-9p, to enable shared directory trees between VMs and the host. But that would need someone to implement virtio support in the Hurd.

I wanted to complete 9pfs before publishing, but that ultimately didn't happen, so now it's time to turn it over to the community.…