> After we resurrected the NetDDE build, and with kind help of the Hurd developers we finally managed to support NetDDE for the Hurd.. This allows the usage of the Intel 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller of the Thinkpad X60 (and many other network cards, possibly even WIFI). Instead of using the builtin kernel driver in GNU Mach, it would be running as a userland driver.

> What sparked this development was upstream's NetBSD rumpdisk support that would allow using modern hard disks such as SSDs, again running as a userland driver.

Remarkable:) If that works out, it could quickly improve HURD's weakest point (hardware support) while still offering benefit over the kernel(s) drivers are borrowed from (drivers in user space).

This is amazing! The Hurd may one day live.