[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] # Introductory Material * [[What_Is_the_GNU_Hurd]] * [[Advantages]] * [[FAQ]] * [[*The_Hurd_and_Linux*|/hurd-and-linux]], a comment by Richard Stallman. * [[*Towards_a_New_Strategy_of_OS_Design*|/hurd-paper]], an architectural overview by Thomas Bushnell, BSG. * [[*The_Hurd*|/hurd-talk]], a presentation by Marcus Brinkmann. * The *[[translator_primer]]*. * A document about *[[translators]]* by Marcus Brinkmann. * [[*A_Critique_of_the_GNU_Hurd_Multi-server_Operating_System*|critique]], an analysis of the GNU Hurd on GNU Mach system, written by Neal Walfield and Marcus Brinkmann. ## External * [*Examining the Legendary HURD Kernel*](http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1180992), an article by David Chisnall. Also covers a bit of GNU's and the Hurd's history, fundamental techniques applied, comparisions to other systems. # Development * [[RPC]]: our usage of *Remote Procedure Call*s. * *[[The_GNU_Hurd_Reference_Manual|reference_manual]]*. * The *[[Hurd_Hacking_Guide]]*, an introduction to GNU Hurd and Mach programming by Wolfgang Jährling. * [*Manually Bootstrapping a Translator*](http://walfield.org/pub/people/neal/papers/hurd-misc/manual-bootstrap.txt), a text by Neal Walfield about how to *manually connect the translator to the filesystem*. * [[*The_Authentication_Server*|auth]], the transcript of a talk about the details of the authentication mechanisms in the Hurd by Wolfgang Jährling. * [*The Mach Paging Interface as Used by the Hurd*](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/l4-hurd/2002-06/msg00001.html), a text by Neal Walfield. * In the [[Position_paper_*Improving_Usability_via_Access_Decomposition_and_Policy*|ng/position_paper]] Neal Walfield and Marcus Brinkmann give an overview about how a future, subsequent system may be architected. * [*Generalizing mobility for the Hurd*](http://users.student.lth.se/cs07fh9/2009-hammar-hurd-mobility.pdf), a thesis written by Carl Fredrik Hammar, investigates the mobility aspect of stores and how it can be generalized and used for other applications. The background chapter may be of interest to new developers.