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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
+2009 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.
+
+  * 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
+
+  * *[[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.