State of Affairs

Last official release
1997
However, far from dead
Finishing feature set and stabilizing

Debian
Approximately 50% of the programs are compiled for the Hurd
gcc et al, LaTeX, XFree86
Not difficult to port a package, however, there are over 5000

Drivers
Based on code from Linux 2.0.38
Will use OSKit by the University of Utah

We are not slow!
The Hurd is a redesign and implementation
Linux is only a reimplementation
Must test a lot of new, unproved concepts
Right now, there are only about 5-10 people who work on the Hurd proper