GNU Guix project official has announced that will phase out support for the Linux kernel, replaced by Hurd kernel.
Guix is a transactional package manager, is also a respected senior users free release of the GNU system. In addition to the standard package management functions, Guix support transparent upgrades and rollbacks, unprivileged package management, configuration files for each user, as well as garbage collection.
Last May, after years of development, GNU Guix has finally released the 1.0.0 version. The official announcement said that all these years, the project has been trying to get support for the GNU / Hurd operating system on the local operation. This also means that users can quickly replace the original Linux-Libre kernel with Hurd kernel. Upcoming Guix 1.1 version will be the last version has Linux-Libre kernel.
As the "run on the Hurd is always Guix goals, and supports multiple cores tremendous maintenance burden," Guix future versions will only run on the Hurd, when the Guix 2.0, Linux-Libre will be completely deleted.
Other distributions will continue to use the Linux kernel, but the team said Guix can only do my best, and hope that other distributions will follow suit and adopt Hurd, "to improve user safety and freedom."