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author | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2008-11-05 12:52:55 +0100 |
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committer | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2008-11-05 12:52:55 +0100 |
commit | 9e633eb9e5bdeb91103ed75e49355dfc30b1d39d (patch) | |
tree | 0fd00bcf13503a9cf2a047739016feb0f083b356 /hurd/status.mdwn | |
parent | f5acfb7fc97bd07e23e83fd11317c18a1d9dabcc (diff) |
hurd.html -> hurd/status and hurd/advantages
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diff --git a/hurd/status.mdwn b/hurd/status.mdwn index a84d7c45..b4ece046 100644 --- a/hurd/status.mdwn +++ b/hurd/status.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008 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 @@ -8,19 +9,44 @@ 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]]."]]"""]] -The Hurd team doesn't create hurd-only releases, but instead relies -on a distribution done by folks from **Debian**. +The Hurd, together with the GNU Mach microkernel, the GNU C Library +and the other GNU and non-GNU programs in the GNU system, provide a +rather complete and usable operating system today. It may not be ready +for production use, as there are still many bugs and missing features. +However, it should be a good base for further development and +non-critical application usage. + +The GNU system (also called GNU/Hurd) is completely self-contained +(you can compile all parts of it using GNU itself). You can run +several instances of the Hurd in parallel, and debug even critical +servers in one Hurd instance with gdb running on another Hurd +instance. You can run the X window system, applications that use it, +and advanced server applications like the Apache webserver. + +On the negative side, the support for character devices (like sound +cards) and other hardware is mostly missing. Although the POSIX +interface is provided, some additional interfaces like POSIX shared +memory or semaphores are still under development. + +All this applies to the current development version, and not to the +last release (0.2). We encourage everybody who is interested to try +out the latest development version, and send feedback to the Hurd +developers. + + +The Hurd team doesn't create Hurd-only releases, but instead relies +on a distribution done by folks from *Debian*. That Debian version closely tracks the progress of the Hurd (and often includes many new features), so little would be gained by creating an official pure Hurd release. -The Debian GNU/Hurd [[distribution|running/debian]] offers **livecds and qemu images** +The Debian GNU/Hurd [[distribution|running/debian]] offers *LiveCDs and QEMU images* to test-drive the Hurd in a real life system with access to about 50% of the Debian software archive. The most recent version of the Debian port at the time of writing -is **Debian GNU/Hurd K16**. +is *Debian GNU/Hurd K16*. That said, the last official release of the Hurd @@ -34,3 +60,4 @@ already expect delays; to disappoint them in this way as well would be unfortunate. Moreover, it would lessen the possibility that they would want to try the Hurd again in the future. + |