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diff --git a/challenges.mdwn b/challenges.mdwn index a3a8a7e6..b58a50d1 100644 --- a/challenges.mdwn +++ b/challenges.mdwn @@ -14,7 +14,11 @@ Some of these are explained in the [[hurd/critique]]. Even though they're quite popular in the simpler embedded space, there is no successful true multi-server [[microkernel]] system for general-purpose desktop -use yet. This is still an ongoing research effort. (TODO: add references.) +use yet. This is still an ongoing research effort. Also the Hurd is not the +only multiserver operating system. Other examples include: +[[Genode OS|https://genode.org/]] (FOSS), [[MINIX 3|https://www.minix3.org/]] (FOSS), +[[HELON OS|http://www.helenos.org/]] (FOSS), and [[QNX|https://blackberry.qnx.com/en]] +(proprietary). Likewise, resource scheduling in distributed operating system kernels is a research topic. For example, read more about it on the relevant [[Open Issues diff --git a/microkernel/genode.mdwn b/microkernel/genode.mdwn index 66dd6b38..757d20a8 100644 --- a/microkernel/genode.mdwn +++ b/microkernel/genode.mdwn @@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] * [[RPC]] +[[Genode|https://genode.org/]] is an operating system framework with the goal +of creating a general purpose multiserver operating system running on a microkernel. +The source code is dual licensed: AGPLv3 and a commercial license. + # IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-08-02 diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/building.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/building.mdwn index 8a23934b..cf5843ff 100644 --- a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/building.mdwn +++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/building.mdwn @@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ enabled) is around 50 MiB. ## Getting the Source Code -You can either use the git repository (see <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/>), +You can either use the git repository (see <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/hurd/>), - $ git clone http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/gnumach.git/ + $ git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/hurd/gnumach.git/ ... or get the Debian sources, if you're using Debian. (See [here](http://packages.debian.net/source/unstable/gnumach).) diff --git a/microkernel/mach/mig/gnu_mig/building.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/mig/gnu_mig/building.mdwn index be79b02d..486c461e 100644 --- a/microkernel/mach/mig/gnu_mig/building.mdwn +++ b/microkernel/mach/mig/gnu_mig/building.mdwn @@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ using a pre-built package, follow these instructions. ## <a name="Getting_the_Source_Code"> Getting the Source Code </a> You can chose between getting the [sources from the developers' -RCS](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/): +RCS](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/hurd/): - $ git clone http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/mig.git/ + $ git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/hurd/mig.git/ ... or (if you are working on a Debian system) get the sources that are used for the [current Debian mig package](http://packages.debian.net/source/unstable/mig): diff --git a/open_issues/Upstart.mdwn b/open_issues/Upstart.mdwn index c8a8347d..1972e197 100644 --- a/open_issues/Upstart.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/Upstart.mdwn @@ -8,11 +8,19 @@ 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]]."]]"""]] + +[[!template id=highlight text="""/!\ Obsolete /!\ + +--- + +[[systemd|Systemd]] has almost universally replaced upstart."""]] + Upstart is an event based init system that is GPL licensed, however upstream contributions are under a CLA that permits proprietary relicensing. -As of Jan 2 2013, Debian is considering adopting Upstart as an init system on -GNU/Linux, and on GNU/kFreeBSD when the port to kFreeBSD is finished. +Most major GNU/Linux distributions are choosing systemd as their init system +instead of upstart. The original upstart developers seem to have stopped +developing it. The following are the words of Colin Watson on the debian-ctte@lists.debian.org mailing list and list the requirements of a potential HURD port: diff --git a/open_issues/shepherd.mdwn b/open_issues/shepherd.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e3dec117 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/shepherd.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013, 2014 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]]."]]"""]] + +[[GNU Shepherd|https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/]] is the service manager that +is used by GuixSD. It is intended for use on the GNU/Hurd, and perhaps one day it will. + +[[!tag open_issue_porting]] + diff --git a/open_issues/systemd.mdwn b/open_issues/systemd.mdwn index efc46e93..dc8aa6e2 100644 --- a/open_issues/systemd.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/systemd.mdwn @@ -24,8 +24,10 @@ Introduction: [*Ressourcen-Verwaltung mit Control Groups (cgroups)* (german)](http://www.pro-linux.de/artikel/2/1464/ressourcen-verwaltung-mit-control-groups-cgroups.html), Daniel Gollub, Stefan Seyfried, 2010-10-14. -Likely there's also some other porting needed. - +Systemd uses Linux kernel specific mechanisms, which are not readily available +on gnumach or the GNU/Hurd. Porting systemd to work on the Hurd is a +daunting task. A better option is to use a portable init system, like the +the [[GNU Shepherd|open_issues/shepherd]], which is used in GuixSD. # Discussion |