No, and systemd would not add compelling features to the Hurd, since the Hurd already provides most of the advertised advantages of systemd, but cleanly integra

No, and systemd would not add compelling features to the Hurd, since the Hurd already provides most of the advertised advantages of systemd, but cleanly integrated into the system — and has been doing so for decades. Some of the reasons for that are discussed in this article: http://www.draketo.de/light/english/free-software/some-technical-advantages-of-the-hurd http://www.draketo.de/light/english/free-software/some-techn... If you want performance from the Hurd, run it in a qemu VM so it profits from the caching algorithms of the Linux host. Then performance is actually pretty good — and you still gain most of the advantages of using the Hurd as OS.