Merge branch 'master' of flubber:~hurd-web/hurd-web

6 files changed, 132 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/hurd/running/debian.mdwn b/hurd/running/debian.mdwn
index 82d84bbe..97d35bd7 100644
--- a/hurd/running/debian.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/running/debian.mdwn
@@ -1,16 +1,28 @@
 [[!meta title="Debian GNU/Hurd"]]
 
-- Debian [[FAQ]] -- Frequently Asked Questions
-- [[After_install]] -- Do this to get networking, new console and X
-- [Presentation](http://people.debian.org/~mbanck/talks/hurd_lt2004/html/)
-  *Debian GNU/Hurd* by [[MichaelBanck]], LinuxTag 2004 Karlsruhe
-- [[Status]]
-- [[Porting]] -- Helping with porting packages
-      * [[Patch_submission]] -- How to submit patches for build failures
+### Debian Resources
 
 - Official page about the Debian GNU/Hurd port: [Debian GNU/Hurd](http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/)
+
+- Debian [[FAQ]] -- Frequently Asked Questions
+
+### Installing
+
 - [Installation Instructions](http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install)
   - [Upgrading K11 or K14 based systems to
     unstable](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2007/09/msg00007.html)
-- [Archive Qualification](http://wiki.debian.org/ArchiveQualification/hurd-i386)
+- [[After_install]] -- Do this to get networking, new console and X
+
+### Contributing
+
+- [[Porting]] -- Helping with porting packages
+      * [[Patch_submission]] -- How to submit patches for build failures
 - [[Creating_image_tarball]]
+
+### Additional Information
+
+- [Presentation](http://people.debian.org/~mbanck/talks/hurd_lt2004/html/)
+  *Debian GNU/Hurd* by [[MichaelBanck]], LinuxTag 2004 Karlsruhe
+- [[Status]]
+- [Archive Qualification](http://wiki.debian.org/ArchiveQualification/hurd-i386)
+
diff --git a/hurd/running/debian/porting.mdwn b/hurd/running/debian/porting.mdwn
index 0882bea3..aa044570 100644
--- a/hurd/running/debian/porting.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/running/debian/porting.mdwn
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ the list below or in the [Alioth task
 tracker](http://alioth.debian.org/pm/task.php?group_project_id=34&group_id=30628&func=browse)
 so other people do not do duplicated work.
 
+Also, the [[community/HurdFr]] guys maintain their own [liste des travaux de
+packaging](http://wiki.hurdfr.org/index.php/Liste_des_travaux_de_packaging).
+
 Aside from the Alioth task tracker, here is a list of some packages (the
 important ones, as they're, e.g., blocking other packages from being built)
 that need someone to work on them.
diff --git a/hurd/running/distrib.mdwn b/hurd/running/distrib.mdwn
index bbf0a380..229e2d8f 100644
--- a/hurd/running/distrib.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/running/distrib.mdwn
@@ -1,8 +1,15 @@
+Working distributions of GNU/Hurd: 
+
 * [[Debian]]
+
+GNU/Hurd distributions in early stages of development: 
+
 * [[Gentoo]]
-* [[Bee]]
 * [[GNU]]
 
+<!-- Bee GNU/Hurd doesn't seem to exist anymore. 
+* [[Bee]]
+-->
 
 # Issues
 
diff --git a/hurd/running/gentoo.mdwn b/hurd/running/gentoo.mdwn
index 89d5d9cf..2a979f41 100644
--- a/hurd/running/gentoo.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/running/gentoo.mdwn
@@ -3,6 +3,32 @@
 Unofficial port to Gentoo and the portage system. It was
 [announced](http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=41939&amp;postdays=0&amp;postorder=asc&amp;start=0)
 March 17, 2003 in the Gentoo forums.  There's a #gentoo-irc channel similar to
-[[IRC]].  At present (May 2005), there's no activity and Eric Olinger has not
-the time to maintain this distri.
+[[IRC]].  
 
+### State of the GGH, 2009-05
+
+> *Did you work a bit more on the Gentoo GNU/Hurd?*
+
+I tried to resume my work 3-4 months ago but I found some problems with
+portage and python functions not implemented on Hurd so I stopped. I think
+that back in 2006 with portage 2.0.54 those functiones weren't necessary.
+
+> *And do you have some information which might help others advance what you began?*
+
+I just have all the ebuilds and binary packages I merged online on
+[http://www.mundurat.net/ggh/portage](http://www.mundurat.net/ggh/portage). 
+
+To continue my work just take a Debian/Hurd and install portage by hand.
+
+Once there take the profile and start bootstraping portage and all the
+ebuild it needs (patch, python, bzip2...).
+
+The major problems are:
+
+- combine the perfect gcc/binutils/glibc/gnumach/hurd and to be able to boot
+- lack of development on gnumach/hurd and current 'degraded' status.
+
+I don't think I can help much right now, but if you have any other
+question just write me.
+
+MiKeL
diff --git a/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn b/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn
index 661084d3..a059f3b1 100644
--- a/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn
@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ This page discusses things for [[Unix]] systems, there is a separate page for
 
 # Readily Available Images
 
-[Official Debian GNU/Hurd QEMU
-image](http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/K16/debian-hurd-k16-qemu.img.tar.gz)
+To try out the Hurd you can use the image of the Debian GNU/Hurd: 
+
+* [Official Debian GNU/Hurd QEMU image](http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/K16/debian-hurd-k16-qemu.img.tar.gz)
 
 (!) Note that the following are unofficial images: they have been prepared by
 volunteers and may not have been tested extensively.
@@ -15,7 +16,9 @@ volunteers and may not have been tested extensively.
 
 * [Disk image](http://draketo.de/dateien/hurd/bab-hurd-qemu-2008-10-29.img.tar.bz2) 
   with a short intro on translators. Just start it with 'qemu *disk_image.img*'. 
-  It should work without any of the configuration below. when you use it, please [tell me your experience with it](http://draketo.de/contact)! - [[community/weblogs/ArneBab]]
+  It should work without any of the configuration below. If you want to know what you can do 
+  with it, please have a look at [[its_wikipage|hurd/running/qemu/babhurd_image]]. And when 
+  you use it, please [tell me your experience with it](http://draketo.de/contact)! - [[community/weblogs/ArneBab]]
 
 <!--* [Announcement](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2007/09/msg00000.html) of  another image. - The link in the email doesn't work anymore, too old. //-->
 
diff --git a/hurd/running/qemu/babhurd_image.mdwn b/hurd/running/qemu/babhurd_image.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c0952fcf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hurd/running/qemu/babhurd_image.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+What this little Hurd image can do
+----------------------------------
+
+### About this text
+
+This is the README file accompanying a 
+[disk\_image](http://draketo.de/dateien/hurd/bab-hurd-qemu-2008-10-29.img.tar.bz2) for 
+[[running_the_GNU/Hurd_via_qemu|hurd/running/qemu]]. To run the disk image, just use *'qemu 
+disk_image.img'*. 
+
+You can find the custom *.bashrc* used to tell the user about it as well as this text itself 
+in the Mercurial repository [hurd_intro](http://bitbucket.org/ArneBab/hurd_intro). 
+
+### Intro
+
+The Hurd has some unique capabilities, and we created this simple image 
+to enable you to easily try two of them: 
+
+* The simplest of translators: Hello World!
+* Transparent FTP
+
+### Hello World
+
+To try out the simplest of translators, you can go the following simple steps: 
+
+	$ cat hello  
+	$ setrans hello /hurd/hello  
+	$ cat hello  
+	"Hello World!"  
+	$ settrans -g hello  
+	$ cat hello  
+
+What you do with these steps is first verifying that the file "hello" is empty. 
+
+Then you setup the translator /hurd/hello in the file/node hello. 
+
+After that you check the contents of the file, and the translator returns "Hello World!". 
+
+To finish it, you tell the translator to go away from the file "hello" via "settrans -g hello" and verify that now the file is empty again. 
+
+### Transparent FTP
+
+We already setup a a transparent FTP translator for you at /ftp: 
+
+With it you can easily access public FTP via the file system, for example the one from the GNU project: 
+
+	$ ls /ftp://ftp.gnu.org/
+
+But you can also do this very easily yourself: 
+
+	$ # Setup the translator on the node ftp:  
+	$ settrans -c ftp: /hurd/hostmux /hurd/ftpfs /
+
+and you can access FTP sites via the pseudo-directory ftp:, for example with 
+
+	$ ls ftp://ftp.gnu.org/
+
+What you do here is setting up the translator /hurd/hostmux on ftp: and passing it the translator /hurd/ftpfs to use for resolving accesses as well as / as additional path component. 
+
+
+These were only two basic usages of translators on the Hurd. We're sure you'll quickly see many other ways to use this. 
+
+As a last comment: You can setup a translator on any node you have access to, so you can for example mount any filesystems as normal user. 
+
+You might currently be logged in as root, but you could just as well do the same as normal user. 
+
+Why don't you try it out?